mom and dad up and moved
the year I went away
sold the house, bought an acreage near Oyen
out by the highway
and I went to school and struggled in the bushes
with daredevil boys and their cigarette kisses
til boredom, or I don't know, something
carried me back home
with my friend Shelley I tried waiting tables
but I didn't even make it til fall
six months at the Co-op, a year at the paper
who knows how it happens at all
he was good-looking and a pretty good dancer
I was a little too reckless and taking my chances
she arrived eleven months later
and nothing was ever the same
and time has a way
of getting away
of getting away on you
I don't know where we're going
I barely know where I come from
but I never did hide away in that canyon
and I never did get that gun
penitentiary nights when who knows where he's been
she's awake crying in the distance between
I swear as good as I'm still seventeen
i'm gonna get in the car and just run...
and time has a way
of getting away
of getting away on you
and more for the miles and the more for the years
just adds up to more that you lose
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