Back To River City Lyrics

Harold makes the gravel groan

In old Camelot Estates

He lights up a cigarette

In his pick-up truck while he waits

Marion hops in with their bags

She says babe, I didn't think you'd show

He just sighs: now buckle up

And they go

They're headed nowhere

On interstate eighty tonight

And now he won't dare

To tell her it'll be alright

Cause she's hip to his bullshit

She knows the trouble that they're in

So this'll be the last time she rides with him

She got swept up in the sound

Of invisible trombones

And if you push she might admit

That she was sick of being alone

So when he flashed that silver smile

She could feel the buckle in her knees

Said get me out of River City, please

So he drove her nowhere

Hustling from town to town

At first she was scared

But soon she learned her way around

That rusty stick-shift

And she'd take the wheel while he slept

And and think of little River City

And wish she'd never left

Staring down the highway

While he's sleeping by her side

The star-speckled night sky

Expanding while she drives

She's gotta leave him

She's gotta get back home

Cause if love is being his accomplice

She'd rather be alone

She pulls in at a mobile station

Whispers, babe you just wait right there

He stirs a little in his sleep

When she gently kisses his hair

Gets her bag out from the back

She don't even close the door

She's not worried about him getting cold

Anymore

She's headed nowhere

But it sure beats where she's been

She's used her best prayers

To get her out of life with him

And if he's going down

She'll be damned if he takes her too

So she's thumbing it back to River City

Say goodbye to Marion You-Know-Who

Say goodbye

Say goodbye

Say goodbye