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The Road Winds

from Albany by Geoff Burgess

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Getting used to the way the road winds
Getting used to the way the clouds fall
Getting used to the way the world
Doesn't seem to be there at all

Crossing the border into the steely gray
Past the old school yard the way it feels today
Shattered glass from the shelter stop
Lying there just like yesterday

This whole life's got its ups and downs
I don't know of anyone who keeps it on the ground
Out of luck in the laundromat
No more change no more spinning sounds

Getting used to the way the road winds
Getting used to the way the clouds fall
Getting used to the way the world
Doesn't seem to be there at all

Coming over the border into the steely night
Somehow the old feeling we had never felt so right
Like the words on a memory lane
Walk on down the trees are turning again

Your old bottles they roll that way
Filled with mystery madness that never went away
Wish that you could return them for
Another chance another place to stay

Empty postcards that line the street
Full of worries that never panned out that never saw their feet
Looking back on the years that went by
Fall on past right in front of me

Getting used to the way the road winds
Getting used to the way the clouds fall
Getting used to the way the world
Doesn't seem to be there at all

All is fine on the surface above the rot
Where some people make millionaires and others can be bought
Where the lies they can wind you up
Unravel you turn you into knots

Gonna miss all the things I have to leave
Gonna find what I had all along but never learned to see
Like the leaves on the dead end streets
Looking up from pools of gasoline

Wish I had what it took to run into you
Wish the things that keep us apart would soon go out of bloom
Wish that time had a sleep switch mounted on the wall
Here inside my room

Getting used to the way the road winds
Getting used to the way the clouds fall
Getting used to the way the world
Doesn't seem to be there at all

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from Albany, released January 4, 2012

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Geoff Burgess Ottawa, Ontario

Geoff Burgess is a singer-songwriter in Ottawa, Ontario, who writes songs about love, loss, time, and the natural world.

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