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You're Not Dead, You're Just in Texas

from Ghosts of Dreams by TR Kelley

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lyrics

interstate
night is falling
headlights coming on across the plains
the open road is a good place for thinking
at tired roadside coffee shops where the faces never change

out between the lines in suspended animation
chasing memories of a long ago farewell
lulled by time and distance and the whining of the wheels
i'll still try to find you even though it hurts like hell

when you lose love to the grave, the love is kept in amber
you can build yourself an icon and the saint will never fall

but you're not dead you're just in Texas and i'm punching in 1-915 then I'm hanging up the phone
because you're doing fine down there in Texas
it's time i learned to let it rest and leave well enough alone

thinking about you out working in the winter twilight
you're watching sunsets rolling in across the plains
and the derricks and the towers and the wires are counting out the miles of the empty space that's grown around the things we just can't say

i exit at some little town but there ain't nothing left
houses turning vacant eyes to the dusty winter wind
in this desolation i'm still looking for direction
in busted neon signs with darkened words to show the way

god forbid if you were gone
but it would hurt much less to love you
your absence is like salt in a hurt that just won't heal

but you're not dead you're just in Texas
and i'm punching in 1-915 then I'm hanging up the phone
because you're doing fine down there in Texas
it's time i learned to let it rest and leave well enough alone
and keep on driving
away

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from Ghosts of Dreams, released July 1, 1997

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This pre-Raventones page has music from TR's 1990s acoustic years, which ran concurrently with here time in Babes With Axes (also available here on bandcamp)

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