Now I'm standing one last time
This is the beginning of experience
Innocence is gone too soon
I climb in the car with my father
Wipe my eyes and say goodbye
We drive all night for West Marin
He puts his hand on my shoulder,
he doesn't know what to say
We got on the highway together,
And the road lay out before us
Who would be the daughter?
upon the way he'd seen this?
Batik sheets thumbtacked to the ceiling
And cinderblock bookshelves
a little leather stash box
The works of Sam Shepard,
he pulls beauty out of air
Nights are filled with music
In the worst of times, the bottom's out,
the landlord's drawn the line
cause we gotta move again
you race down to the phone company
To kill the engine going downhill,
to fill out another new school
One night on the way home from the city
We leave it in a parking lot
And race a shopping cart through town
We'll have to wait till daylight
to hitch a ride home with a friend
So we sing Beatles songs together
Till the night comes to an end
Now I'm hugging, good to meet you
And the shelves go up in a room
Now it's coming down to money
And they're not getting along
She can't give him the support he needs
So once again we're pawned
From where can we live freely
To where can we stay for free
And the open road's potential
Like a diamond in the rough
Closed into the path of least resistance
At the time I ain't had enough
from the hospital doorway
And I've stood one last time
Hard as I fought to get away from him
Suddenly he's gone too soon
I watch my daughter sleeping
They'll tell me what I miss someday
and I'll try to understand
Remember every slip of words,
you hope for another forward step
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