The Good Life - Leaving Omaha lyrics

On Stage at the Orpheum waiting for a diploma Lookin' 'round at my cla**mates, ready to disown them. My bags were packed, I was ready to leave, for University- I was moving up and out- out of Omaha... it didn't last One night I was drinking alone, so I drove out to Denver to visit an old friend who had settled down there. I kept on driving all through the night and threw up at dawn's early light- sick on caffeine pills. My friend, he escaped from Omaha... I never will. I had a lover once, she was a nomad. I would've followed her anywhere, so we moved out to Portland. She was selling baggage- I bought all I could- and that was all it took to make my escape. Oh Omaha, you never looked so good. I am leaving. I'm sailing away. My time in Iowa was just a holiday. I've gotta get back over that bridge to the town were I live- I guess that's where I'll stay. Omaha