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I leave the house as soon as it gets light outside
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Like a prisoner breaking out of jail
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And I steal down to business 15-501
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Like I had a bounty hunter on my tail
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And somebody stops to pick me up
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But he drops me off just down the block

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And along the highway
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Where the empty spirits breed
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Wild sage growing in the weeds

Walk down the soft shoulder and I count my steps
Headed vaguely eastward, sun in my eyes
And I lose my footing and I skin my hands breaking my fall
And I laugh to myself and look up at the skies
And then I think I hear angels in my ears
Like marbles being thrown against a mirror

And along the highway
Where unlucky stray dogs bleed
Wild sage growing in the weeds

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And somedays I don't miss my family
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And somedays I do
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Somedays I think I'd feel better if I tried harder
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Most days I know it's not true

I lay down right where I felt cold grass in my face
And I hear the traffic like the rhythm of the tides
And I stare at the scrape on the heel of my hand
Till it doesn't sting so much and until the blood's dried
And when somebody asks if I'm okay
I don't know what to say

And along the highway
From cast off innumerable seeds
Wild sage growing in the weeds

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