Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Blue Distance (Guitar)

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Across the railroad tracks, down the gravel road

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headlights throw a beam   on the way back home.

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Lie down, lie down, listen wide awake

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To the trains that roll, to the sound time makes.

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It passes through the air like a summer storm

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Catching on my sleeve   like a rose's thorn.

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Sometimes it whispers, sometimes it roars

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Flies like the wind, waits by the door.

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And I know you know and that’s all I need

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When the light of day looks like night to me

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When you’re far away and I’m all alone

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I can’t explain, I know you know.

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It fills up my chest, it fills up my eyes

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like an old glass jar filled with fireflies.

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Sometimes I’m still, sometimes I sigh

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Sometimes I’m lost and I don’t know why

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But I know you know and that’s all I need

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When the light of day looks like night to me.

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When you’re far away and I’m all alone

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I can’t explain, I know you know.

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In the morning light, before the heat sets in

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Call the dogs to run where the shade has been.

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Across the railroad tracks lay your silver down

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Find it smooth and flat, stars for your crown.

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In the blue distance where our lives unfurl

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The edges of the sky,   the beauty of the world.

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But I know you know and that’s all I need

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When the light of day looks like night to me.

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When you’re far away and I’m all alone

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I can’t explain, I know you know.