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Step outside, lovely car
I have to travel very far
It's too early, you're a whore
And I don't think I can take this anymore
Ten years on and I've forgotten everything about you
I've moved on and on and I am living here without you
And I heard you got married, had a baby or two
Or maybe that just seems like what you might do
You haven't crossed my mind now in so long
Fumbled through old notebooks and I stumbled on this song
Screen door slams, empty town
One stoplight, nobody's around
Morning breeze and day's not dawned
I look behind me, it's all gone
Ten years on and I've forgotten everything about you
I've moved on and on and I am living here without you
And I heard you got married, had a baby or two
Or maybe that just seems like what you might do
You haven't crossed my mind now in so long
Fumbled through old notebooks and I stumbled on this song
I used to say
Happiness is seeing
Mitchell, Indiana
In my rearview mirror
But you know that that's not true
Happiness is the life I found without you
Step outside, lovely car
I have to travel very far
It's too early, you're a whore
And I don't think I can take this anymore
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Jeffersonville
02:48
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Just north of the beautiful Ohio River
In Southern Indiana where I was a boy
There's a little old town I'd like not to remember
And when I pass through I make sure to avoid
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
It's a shame that it's named for a great president
When it's nothing but fast food and trashed parking lots
It's the kind of place that don't have no residents
Just folks who passed through, meant to leave and forgot
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
I once knew a girl with the bad luck to live there
In a rundown motel room, all yellow and grey
And she spent all her time looking out at the river
And wishing that it would carry her away
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
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Thunder Over Louisville
02:46
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We ain't going outside today
The bridge is blocked, cars are stopped on the highway
And it's two weeks to Derby Day
I feel like a racehorse, I just wanna run away
There's people piled up on the Great Lawn
Seeking some explosive siren song
They make a mess and then they're gone
'Cause they know a cleanup crew will be coming along
And when the Thunder comes
They throw a nighttime pyrotechnic celebration
They're by the river having fun
The sky will be smothered with smoke when they're all done
They stare at sparks 'til their eyes hurt
They wanna know exactly how the fire works
Afterwards, they leave in spurts
And in the morning slowly the city reverts
And when the Thunder leaves
The smoke will clear and we will be able to breathe
The partygoers briefly grieve
Then ready for the next stop, endless Derby Eve
We ain't going outside today...
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Let the sky open up, just like an angry eye
And let the rain come down
Let the water rise up, and let it overrun this town
Let the river rise up, and let all the bridges fall
Let it sweep over us all
Let the Mighty Ohio reclaim its great divide
Let Kentuckiana finally break open wide
Like a bridge under troubled water, let everything drown
Let us sink into the river, the Bridge Project let us down
Let the K&I Bridge be the first to wash away
And of course the Kennedy
Let the Sherman Minton and even the 2nd Street
Let them all admit defeat
To the Mississippi, then to the Gulf of Mexico
Let them all finally go
Let the Mighty Ohio reclaim its great divide
Let Kentuckiana finally break open wide
Like a bridge under troubled water, let everything drown
Let us sink into the river, the Bridge Project let us down
Let the Mighty Ohio reclaim its great divide
Let Kentuckiana finally break open wide
Like a bridge under troubled water, let everything drown
Let us sink into the river, the Bridge Project let us down
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