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Follow Tail Lights

from There's Gotta Be a Road by Charlie Monterey

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Looking back at a home I used to have. (Written in April 1995.)

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I am standing beside a dirt road
Not far from where I once lived
Looking out over the farmlands
I remembered when I was a kid
There are some of the same trees and houses
Some of the neighbors that I used to know

But not everything is the same here
There's a farm that's no longer plowed
There's five or six brand new houses
Corn and wheat are no longer allowed
There's an industrial park up the road some
And the barns that I played in are gone

Maybe you can't hold back progress
The only thing constant is change

And over there is a bridge 'cross the freeway
I used to go there late at night
And I'd watch the tail lights go somewhere
Thinking someday I'd take off in flight
Maybe just into the city
Or maybe thousands of miles away

I would dream of my day on that freeway
Follow tail lights down roads yet to come

Nobody knows where they lead us
The roads that we mapped long ago
You never know what you will find there
Even if you have been there before

Now I'm standing beside this dirt road
But it's no road that I've seen here before
Then I'm looking through eyes that have grown some
I guess this isn't my home anymore
There are clues to what's in my memory
Only signs of what's left in my past

In a while I'll be back on that freeway
Follow tail lights down roads yet to come

I am standing beside a dirt road
Not far from where I once lived
Looking out over the farm land
I remember when I was a kid

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from There's Gotta Be a Road, released January 20, 2001
Charlie: Guitar, bass, vocals.

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Charlie Monterey Warren, Michigan

Singer/songwriter and guitarist from metro Detroit, Michigan. Generally mellow sort of folkish songs, relatively minimal arrangements.

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