Oregone Lyrics

Bent you out of shape in bend

The concrete's looking safer

than it ever has before

I wonder

You once embraced the colder side

Before you pulled your zipper

I guess anything is better than this

And everything seems wonderful

The rain, the trees, the chemicals

The wind a bouncing gently off my skin

And it would a miracle

An error in the clericals

To tell you of the agony I'm in

And how I've been feeling for so long

So instead I'm leaving, or a going, Oregone

Newport to Portland, c'reens a dream

A ripping at the little seam

That holds together my weak heart to you

And I wish we had seen Eugene

As more than just a flash on screen

It's deeper than it looks at first, it's true

And everything seems wonderful

Enough to send me vertical

With waves crashing, stripping off my skin

And it would take a miracle

Kings horses, and his men, and all

To tear apart the labyrinth I'm in

And save me from the me I've been so long

But instead I'm leaving, or a going, Oregone

When next I see the coast from crows nest

I'll be starbound 'neath different captain

Lest I be traveling alone

Let me tell a story of a story of Astoria

And treasure buried deep within that air

And how a single spark can light a little flame inside a heart

Left dry from all the dead inside it there

And someday it'd be wonderful

The walk along the open road

The Joseph highway, the trees move in the wind

But it would take a miracle

To rid me of my barnacles

And rip me from the tide pool that I'm in

And send me to the place I've always longed

Picture me leaving, or a going, Oregone