Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song I Tried Going West, artist - Mary Chapin Carpenter. Album song Ashes And Roses, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.2011
Record label: Concord, Rounder
Song language: English
I Tried Going West |
I tried going west where the sky meets the sun |
Where the edge of the world’s always been |
As far from this place as a girl gets to run |
When her reasons to stay have worn thin |
Out there the days were so bright and so blue |
Yet I missed all my thunder and rain |
The way a storm punctures a hot afternoon |
Washing away every stain |
When my maps pointed north they were calling for snow |
To cover all sound and all sight |
Tell me where on this earth does all that noise go |
Underneath all of that white |
With thaws scarcely mentioned I dug out my truck |
By the time the storm cleared I was gone |
Back on the road with the radio up |
Singing at the top of my lungs |
Driving and crying and driving some more |
Oh the south is a good place to hide |
Hot nights, cold beer and creaky screen doors |
And a motel’s vacancy sign |
A letter a day I wrote back home to you |
But not one you ever received |
Because I can’t stand a man who lies like you do |
And I can’t bear a woman who pleads |
One day it dawned I had run out of road |
And out of reasons to run |
Like a horse to the barn I was hell bent to go |
As fast going back as I’d come |
Home, home was the song that I sang |
As I pulled in just before dark |
There was only a hook where your coat used to hang |
That’s where I hung up my heart |
I tried going west, where the sky meets the sun |