Cherry Lane

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Past the wounded cars reflecting all their dirty light
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Past the unnamed bars, the unnamed prisoners of the night
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Past the Winnebago dreaming all its iron dreams
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Past the haunted drugstore where the fortune teller leans

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Past the gravel parking lot where blood is always blood
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Past the storefront church where they say God made Man from mud
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There you'll find the broken toys who chased their love in vain
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If you wander over yonder down my Cherry Lane

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Past the dimming county line where all turns black and red
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Past the winners' trash bags where the losers lay their heads
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Listen for the freight trains rumbling, talking in their sleep
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See the lonesome drifter ask the Lord her soul to keep

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Walk beneath the signpost where the purple neon hums
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See the ugly cardboard world where someday never comes
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And you may see my old man Gideon walking with a cane
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If you wander over yonder down my Cherry Lane

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I got sick, then I got sicker, and then I lost my way
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Heard a song without a singer at the close of day
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I went driving, I went walking, I went far away
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Went somewhere you can't come back from, somewhere you can't stay

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If you see me on your journey, try and say my name
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You can turn and trace your footsteps back the way you came
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Or you can take the highway running wild through joy and pain
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If you wander over yonder down my Cherry Lane

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