Story Behind The Song
This is a Guy Clarke Song about moving out of LA and back to Texas, leaving the city and all its unfriendliness behind and back to a place that is more down to earth.
Song Description
Acoustic folk-country tune about leaving LA behind and getting back to the country.
| Song Length |
4:35 |
Genre |
Folk - Country, Country - Americana |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Restless, Poignant |
Subject |
Road, Change |
| Similar Artists |
Sarah Mclachlan, Natalie Merchant |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Pack up all your dishes.
Make note of all good wishes.
Say goodbye to the landlord for me.
That son of a bitch has always bored me.
Throw out them LA papers
And that moldy box of vanilla wafers.
Adios to all this concrete.
Gonna get me some dirt road back street
Chorus
If I can just get off of this LA freeway
Without getting killed or caught
I'd be down that road in a cloud of smoke
For some land that I ain't bought bought bought
Here's to you Mr Edwards
Only one I think I will miss
I can hear that old guitar singing
Sweet and low like a gift you're bringin'
Play it for me just one more time now
Got to give it all we can now
I believe everything your saying
Just keep on, keep on playing
Chorus
And you put the pink card in the mailbox
Leave the key in the old front door lock
They will find it likely as not
I'm sure there's somethin' we have forgot
Oh Susanna, don't you cry, babe
Love's a gift that's surely handmade
We've got something to believe in
Don't ya think it's time we're leavin'
Chorus
Repeat 1/2 of verse 1