Tucumcari Lyrics

I pulled into Tucumcari

Thinking of the ordinary

People living, people dying

Poems without even trying

Where's my bag and what's the mission?

Forgive me my lack of vision

Measured couplets, broken windows

Always been this way, I suppose

All at once it fell on me

Like a miner in world history

The people living, people dying

Water finds its way to water

I don't pray, maybe I oughta

People living, people dying

I'm not crying, you are crying

Getting it wrong, getting it right

You hope for the best and stay in the fight, my dear

Until the coast is clear

Piling way up high and rising

Stepping out is traumatizing

Longer shadows, shorter patience

Hold me close but keep your distance

People living, people dying

Mystified the mystifying

Broken windows, autumn creeps in

To the hearts of all God's children

If you listen, you will hear those

Scratchy throats and broken noses

People living, people dying

Poems without even trying

Getting it wrong, getting it right

You hope for the best and stay in the fight, my dear

Until the coast is clear

And everyone stands and cheers for the world

FOR THE WORLD!