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We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
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You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
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Every hurdle, every chasm, every shocking & unspeakable blow
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Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
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throat
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But if you're fixed on being bitter
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Go be bitter on your own
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We're still two hours from El Paso
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Arizona's such a long way to go
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The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
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I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
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You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
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You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face
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Me & New Mexico are orphans
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Or is it bastards? Either way:
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I know a guy in Roswell
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We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
Interlude, Repeat Verse
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You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards
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while my eyes cut her name in clay.
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You wake to Mesa, Arizona
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Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
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You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
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Said, 'I got the rest, man.
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You can drift away.'