Song Description

Three years out of high school, Chloe has a good job at a local machine shop while still doing her usual chores on the farm. She plays guitar less and less these days. She is feeling closed in and smothered, even by Lonnie sometimes. They still play occasional gigs at local bars, but it's becoming old for her. Walking along Tunnel Road at sunset one evening, with the Wyler farm silhouetted against the sky, she knows she must leave, follow the twilight to wherever it will take her. lyrics

Lyrics

She was walking just to clear her head one night--
the sun was setting in the west.
She felt something in her soul was just not right.
She kept on walking on a quest.

She was walking and she...she was breathing and she...
looked at the sky, it was aflame.

Took her shoes off and walked barefoot through the grass.
The air it tasted like champagne.
Felt the wind run its fingers through her hair.
She wasn't felling any pain.

She was walking and she...she was breathing and she...
realized she'd never be the same.

Walking out in twilight on Tunnel Road--
she don't know it, but she's walking into dreamtime
in the night.
Walking out in twilight on Tunnel Road--
She can't see it, but she's walking toward the light.

She smells something that smells just like gingerbread.
She tastes nutmeg on her tongue.
It reminds her of the Christmasses she's fled,
the innocence when she was young.

She was running and she...she was thinking and she...
never realized her name.

She was walking and she...she was breathing and she...
she knew that darkness was her name.
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