Amy Speace - In Salida lyrics

Once upon a recent time With days to k** and a long long drive The detour to where he once was mine I found myself back in Salida. There was a man with eyes like the sea The green and gold of summer weed Who held his heart between his teeth There was a man who once chose me Brick fall in at the back of the bar .. like a river folded arms His arrow stare tore me apart Off my course broke both our hearts But the second time around We held each other underground In the shadows of the city lights My ring-burnt skin his covered eyes sponsored links Like a dream that rolls down hill We tumbled headfirst as we spilled Still we tried to hold on to the wind I never saw him again. Now with time to spare and a borrowed car, Skin tight aggrieving heart From another love, another time, I retraced the steps I'd left behind Went back to that mountain town, I whispered his name to the threatening clouds, Trying to conjure up that underground Afraid to speak his name out loud It was a place where time had slowed Now its cafes are vintage clothes And I knew who I'd come here to let go, And left long ago. We tasted then the desire and rage Like actors on off-Broadway, This time I knew more was at stake Alone I chased regret and age I tried to trap them in my songs But always got the timing wrong So now I'm chasing down where I belong To pay my dues before I'm gone Chasing all the untied ends I'm chasing them down so they blurring blend into one great love I'll make amends and pull back from the edge again And heal the thing that stuck and broke The knot it's always in my throat A country on the verge of an overthrow Rusted belly of a sunken boat And in the last light of that winter's day I lit a match and I watched the flames From the biggest fire that I could make Made a coyote breath, a river.. The Hudson Line, the ... The Cumberland, the Arkansas, traveled a long way from Tennessee To settle this free. Once upon a recent time With days to k** and a long long drive The detour to where he once was mine I found myself back in Salida, In Salida In Salida