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by Indigo Girls


DIRT AND DEAD ENDS (Amy Ray)

No Capo

                     
You're looking at foreclosure
           
And doing time
                    
And it don't sound good this time
                            
They found the meth and the scale,
          
And the wife that made your life Hell

                            
All the time you were telling me
          
You were fine
     
Silly man

               
So I got your dog.
         
How is that?
           
I made it nice, I wrote a check.
                             
You cut the weeds back on my drive
                     
Cause you're a good guy deep down inside.
                            
What makes a boy like you go bad,
              
What makes a man so lonely and sad,
                         
That he'd poison all he knows
            
And in one year, just let it go?

                                 
And all that time you were telling me
          
You were fine
               
Silly man, silly boy

                                
It's been you and me on this frontier
                    
Trying not to be suburban pioneers.
                    
Fighting off the pavers
             
And the associations
            
And the covenants against the trailers.

                           
I remember how we used to laugh
                      
At all those rotten men in "camo" drag
                               
With their advantage and their guns
              
Up the deer stand shooting up a storm

           
And all the time
                             
You were telling me all those lies
                          
Silly man, I'm just a silly girl

             
There was a time
                          
We could hibernate like bears
           
But we finally come up for air
                                 
And everything's all marked and cleared,
                 
Survey flags flying everywhere.

                  
Once you said to me
                             
You know, what I'll miss the most
         
Is just being the only ones
                            
With our dirt and our dead ends
        
And no one to turn us in.

Enjoy!