Northbound 35 Lyrics

Northbound 35 lyrics

Northbound 35

Through the iron hills

Under infidel skies

It's two hundred miles to drive

You won't be home  



I saw an elsebound train

On the overpass 

In the driving rain

Every ticket costs the same

For where you can't go  



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Mustang horses, champagne glasses

Anything frail anything wild  

It’s the price of living motion

What's beautiful is broken

And grace is just the measure of a fall  



So I rolled into your town

I passed the smokestacks 

And the ore docks down off of Main

And the sky spun around

With her diamonds on fire  



We fought all night and then we danced

In your kitchen

You were as much in my hands

As water or darkness or nothing

Can ever be held  



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It's just flashes that we own

Little snapshots 

Made from breath and from bone

And out on the darkling plain alone

They light up the sky  



It's 51 and driving south

Ain't it funny 

How things'll turn out

I never even kissed you on the mouth

When we said goodbye  



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