歌词
08.One Can Only Hope
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Time ago in Massachusetts
Saw you in a dying birch tree
Swinging from the branches like a noose
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Hid our love inside the woodpile
Slow-danced in the sunken garden
Parted ways and I ain't seen you since
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Amtrak train bound for Penn station
Leaking from my eyes and ink pen
Praying Casey Jones will take me home
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I'm wondering if you've met regret
Or if she's tried to kiss you yet
Or maybe make you second-guess your own flesh and bone
One can only hope
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Tennessee in mid-November
Sour milk, asbestos shingles
Ready me for winter's loneliness
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I'm looking hard now for a sign
A hymnal with a broken spine
Entrails perfectly aligned, you never really know
One can only hope
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Hidden in an Austin motel
Hunched over a plywood table
Writing words I'm never gonna send
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But maybe if I start to sing
They'll float along what might have been
As buoyant as original sin and find their way to you
One can only hope
One can only hope