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Go Get That Dream
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Go Get That Dream |
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soul drifter Senior Member
since 2004-09-08
Posts 711Colorado |
Go Get That Dream I'm drivin' a '69 Dodge down the road, lookin' for a good place my heart can explode staring at America looming through the window searchin' for a friendly face I might know yeah I counted up my hopes of yesterdays and hit that motor, disappeared in a haze rumblin' wild in that death machine... oh... I'm gonna go n' get that dream Turnin' up the radio blastin' Mitch Ryder fumblin' with death and a Zippo lighter from Fortress Detroit I ride till dawn's break stumbled into Denver and I slam on the brakes yeah I divided the Great Divide like stolen cash burned these worn tires down to black ash hit that storm like nothin' you ever seen... man...I gotta go n' get that dream I followed that dream, got so hard, so mean drunk on gasoline, I'd get wrecked on anything and I went down some ugly, snaking roads and the devil was with me all the way, I know he's waiting there for every man parched on hopes lost souls danglin' at the end of their ropes fools who follow tail lights up 'round the bend but it just goes on and on, it ain't ever gonna end and you're left lonely, lost and lean but still I'll go out and get that dream yeah, till the edge of the night, oh I'm out of sight... Well, I lost that Challenger today, baby walkin' outta Vegas city limits begging mistakes I made drown me in bitterness but I counted up the change that I had left yeah I called you twice then I split this scene nothin' in the pockets of my faded blue jeans just a picture of a girl I ain't ever seen... Ohh...and it's for her that I'm gonna go get that dream. "Negotiations & love songs are often mistaken for one and the same."--Paul Simon |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Sounds like me many years ago . . . On the road, busted, thumbing, the whole bit. Saw America that way though, some of it I could have done without. Good poem, soul drifter. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~ |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
I had a Tom Petty "Runnin' Down a Dream" flashback in your last stanza. Never stop chasing yours. A life without dream ain't no livin' at all. Enjoyable read. Michael |
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