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Blizzard to a Burning Bridge

from High Mileage by t heislen

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lyrics

Driving southbound through a blizzard
toward a bridge on fire
got a blanket for a heater
and just one snow tire
Had two when I started
but one didn’t get far
cop stopped to watch me change it
but he stayed in his warm car

Coffee with Kentucky sweetener
is all I’ve got for lunch
I might have left that situation
but it beat me to the punch
now I’m southbound in a snowstorm
toward another door I’d closed
she might open it just far enough
to slam it on my nose

There’s no future in the past they say
that house cannot be home
but of all the places I can’t go
it’s one that still answers the phone

Cold duck in a hot shower
feeling comes back to my feet
still not sure where they are going
is this forward or retreat?
Waking up from running headlong
after someone else’s dream
in a nowhere prairie motel
while the television screams

Ran away from one fine mess
to fall into another one worse
now I’ve got nowhere to go
but to slip and slide back to the first

Broke my buggy in six places
so far I’ve just fixed five
promise to sell it to a good home
if I get back South alive
Hitched my wagon to a falling star
that wasn’t even mine
now I’m freezing off to somewhere else
I thought I’d left behind

Blizzard to a burning bridge
will I get across this time?

© Terry Heislen, bmi

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from High Mileage, released December 6, 2012
Brian Alderman, electric guitar

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