
Date of issue: 24.09.2012
Record label: Full Light
Song language: English
Miracle of Living |
He left Boston in December for New Mexico |
Determined to forget all of the faces he’d known |
A little lonesome and a world of troubled mind |
With a bed roll on his shoulder and a banjo on his knee |
He would hitch a ride with truckers |
He believed them to be free |
Eighteen-wheelers roll a little further down the line |
He did not meet a girl in Richmond nor in old San Antone |
His vision of the Southwest would be realized alone |
Alone to wonder |
How his life had gone thus far |
As he walked along the highway |
He felt a power from inside |
He found a miracle of living |
In having nothing left to hide |
He walked Carlsbad to White Sands |
For forty days and nights |
But it only took ten minutes for that man to realize: |
Lord, it’s lonesome everywhere |
Now he’s living back in Boston teaching English in high school |
Glad to have bi-weekly wages |
Glad the kids all think he’s cool |
He’s a man who has learned from where he’s been |
He keeps a bottle full of white sand on his table down the hall |
And a worn map of New Mexico thumb-tacked on the wall |
Oh, you never know |
He may need to go again |
As he walks along the hallway |
He feels that power swell up from inside |
And finds a miracle of living |
In having nothing left to hide |
Oh, it’s a miracle |
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