Name: Halfway Across Iowa
Duration: P00H04M40S
Description: I've only been to Denver. The song wanted to go to California. Songs do that sometimes. (Written in October 1994.)

Halfway Across Iowa

from There's Gotta Be a Road by Charlie Monterey

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I've only been to Denver. The song wanted to go to California. Songs do that sometimes. (Written in October 1994.)

lyrics

Halfway across Iowa I missed you for the first time
Miles and miles of corn fields, without any trees to climb
The only thing I wanted was to hear a friendly voice
But a farm show on the radio was my only choice

And overnight in Omaha, a cafe after after dark
Then a bed and a TV set in a motel by the park
I played my songs to an empty room, chords bouncing off the wall
Then I watched Jay Leno, you know he never heard at all

About how it felt to miss you though I said I didn't care
And how you fill a hole in me that I didn't know was there
I thought that I could leave you, and though that may be true
I will never leave a place that I could miss as much as you

And rolling into Denver underneath the open sky
The Rockies building in the west, truckers roaring by
I pointed at an eagle, said "Hey would you look at that"
As if you were sitting there seeing what I pointed at

Halfway across Iowa I missed you for the first time
I'll be in California sometime Friday after nine
I guess I'll send a postcard from the next town I pass through
Though I know a card can't say what I need to say to you

(repeat 3rd verse)

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from There's Gotta Be a Road, released January 20, 2001
Charlie: Guitars, 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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