Drumheller (Pt. 2)

from Who Knows How It Happens At All by The Collapse

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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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from Who Knows How It Happens At All, released March 24, 2016

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