Andrew Osenga - New Mexico lyrics

From the heart-wrenched sweet nothings Between two distant lovers To the dying of the cruelty of war Oh, the sad news and the love songs Are pa**ed along these phone poles That stretch forever Like the lines of a Hemingway story And they stretch along this highway Like so many martyrs Hung and burned for loving Shedding light on Caesar's gardens And they're pa**ing on a message sent from you To us here in New Mexico Well the old man at the red light Was selling homeless papers And our windows kept the awkward silence in We kept our eyes ahead And then we quickly changed the subject And our hearts broke even more With our own hardness Because Mark had asked If we should invite him along for dinner And we hemmed and hawed ‘Til green faded into our Scarlet Letter And I know no martyrs died to pa** that on To us here in New Mexico Well the might is raining from the clouds That hang above this city And all I want is just to be alone Unless that girl I'm praying for Is here in Albuquerque Unless you came to raise The quick and dead Then we'll step out of this river Of the Father, Ghost, and Son Where we've waded in your innocence Cause all of ours was gone And we'll lift our eyes to see A new light dawn On the beauty of New Mexico