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Half of My Heart Is a Runaway Train

from Can't Get Right With the Darkness by Clementine Was Right

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You poke your head up out of the river. It's raining. You duck right back down. You drink at the VFW on purpose and fall asleep in tobacco barns by accident. You feel adrift and hick-ish in the college town, and though you still don’t know if it's true when you claim it isn’t love if you say it too much, you keep writing a new letter at every bus stop.

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Writing you a letter at the bus stop, babe
I didn’t wanna wake you up
We could sit around and make each other cry
You know it ain’t love if you say it too much

Oh I’m really just a stupid boy
All I do is shrug and clean up nice
I’m a fan of feathers on the river out there
I’m a fan of summer and all that light

Please don’t tell me where you’re gonna be
And I won’t tell you everything I need

Half of my heart is a runaway train
Half of my heart is a bridge stake
Half of my heart is a runaway train
Half of my heart is a cliff face

I like to go drinking at the VFW
In a city miles from the one I’m from
Fill my coat with these bedrock stones
Suck my knuckles when the night’s no fun

Gotta call you bout this weather, babe
I been sleeping in tobacco barns
Hung the word STAY from the Mendocino sky
But it wasn’t you, it wasn’t you, you swore

Please don’t tell me where you’re gonna be
And I won’t tell you everything I need

Half of my heart is a runaway train
Half of my heart is a bridge stake
Half of my heart is a runaway train
Half of my heart is a cliff face

Sometimes the best way out of the rain
Is straight back down
In the river
The best way out of the rain
Is straight back down
In the river
Sometimes the best way out of the rain is straight back down

Half of my heart is a runaway train
Half of my heart is a bridge stake
Half of my heart is a runaway train
Half of my heart is a cliff face

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from Can't Get Right With the Darkness, released March 18, 2022

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Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of Denver- based poets Mike Young and Gion Davis.

Chronicling years of uprooting, the music gallops and sways through lyric-driven, hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo, harmonizing and storytelling.

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