Mill Creek Lyrics

Mill Creek lyrics

I used to go down to the Mill Creek

When I was only nine or ten

I'd run trot lines in the muddy water

I'd watch the leaves riding the wind



It was there I smoked my first Marlboro

It was there I kissed Laurie Jones

I'd lie in the tall grass for hours

I'd walk in the shallows, I'd skim those stones



And one day I was a climbing in the railroad trestle

I heard the sound of a coming train

Man, it was on me like a rolling thunder

Lit a fear inside I can't explain



Sent me running, sent me screaming

Like a wild man through the tall grass

Trying to make it back home



And it was then I ran into that stranger

With his suitcase and his walking cane

He put his hand on my little shoulder

And since that day, I ain't been the same



Sends me running, sends me screaming

Down a freeway, down a runway

Trying to make it back home



And here I stand, in this darkened hallway

My baby's sleeping, dreaming soft and low

I feel his hand on my shoulder

Like that day, down by the Mill Creek, long ago