Song For John Darnielle

from Open Letters, Vol. 1 by Constant Reader

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It was 4:50am when I got home
And I was wishing an angel had been there to roll away the stones
Coming back from Asheville and I-40 was shut down
And we got so lost on our way back to Tennessee

We drove down backroads through scary places where we had never been
And we stopped at a gas station in some small town that we had never seen
We consulted maps and some cheap cellphone's misguided GPS
Yeah, the whole thing was a mess

I had to work in the morning and when my alarm went off, I though that I would die
Or maybe cry, or maybe cry, or maybe cry, or maybe cry
Then a few days past and I wasn't tired, I was not tired anymore
And I still remembered when I shook your hand a couple days before
And you sang some songs, you told some stories, and you signed a lot of things
It was worth it just to hear you sing

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from Open Letters, Vol. 1, released May 18, 2014
Words and music by Anthony Bowman

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