Hard Wheels

from Destination Unimportant by BeJae Fleming

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You wanted a lover who smelled like October
Who tasted like pines that grow beside the French Broad River
Who moved like the trains on the Sterling Street tracks
Rolling slow before midnight, then faster, clickety-clack, clickety-clack
You with your slow train ways, me with my dark town days
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn, the butcher’s on the moon, the cows have stolen all the corn
The cat’s in the cradle, the dogs are on the run
I may kiss you before I leave, then again I might just travel on

(Chorus)
Hard wheels on steel rails shook the floor where you were living
Rattled the windows and the cups in the kitchen
Signaled a warning so loud you couldn’t miss it
Better watch out, watch out, but you wouldn’t listen

Railroad trestle, deserted back road
She’d asked for a ride, she was only fourteen years old
And the man in the van made sure she never can tell
Pushed into the backseat, pushed straight into hell
Just a girl from New Jersey with Rockaway eyes
Now she’s about to meet God with this Devil by her side
So she dreams she’s a bird or some fast flying train
Rolling clean into last night, back home safe again

(Chorus)

Her daddy will miss her, her mama will cry
Brother keeps silent, they all want this bastard to fry
But, he’s no different from them, from you or from me
The mystery of longing is that we all wanna be
Touching someone in some way that will last
For some it is tender, for others it is barbed wire and broken glass
And you won’t know beforehand, no you never can tell
If it’s good luck or peril, goodnight or fare thee well

(Chorus)

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from Destination Unimportant, released January 6, 2006

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