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put on your helmets and kid hats and glovesso we ran and hid and surrendered and finally did we retreat to the land above the red hillsby stretched-out telephone wireswe saw burnt-down shotgun shacks and the rust and fire-gutted skeletons of school busesand there we sat on the raggedy edge in lawn chairs with sunglasses and watched the skyuntil we dissvolved into twilit light and gray beat (?) dust of sunsetbut the sun's set nowon another election yearwe left another town behind darlingand on midnight on a sunday in november jesse and i sat low in our seats in a movie theatre in hawthornethen walked out to the drizzling sidewalkwet, gray and dull-lit with headlights and the blur of racing taxisand misty, glowing street lampsand we stood together as the late-night traffic rushed by and she said "god i can't believe you're leaving without me again"but we pack amps and drum cases and spread ourselves out across the plains and randy (?) highwaysall our friends in bands and bands in car parks and motel parking lotswe see ???? at night the snowy expanse we drink lone star beer at midnight oftenwe sit backstage in london and stare into the makeup mirror, brass plastic framed and etched with initials and phone numberswe dance in vans and eat poisonous honey from mason jars and see the yellow smear of headlights on the windshieldwhile the bass beats ooze from the car stereoand now behind us jobs and utility bills and bad boxes and ???? steambecause tonight we're not ???? burdened by habits and wartime blues'cause tonight we have no friends fighting cancer ????tonight our past means nothing and nothing we do is debilitatingso give us white lines to start our hearts, give us auditoriums and ballrooms and clubsfill our dressing rooms with gin and red wine and we'll give you back songsnone of this lasts foreverall good life will passbut we're driving all night tonight let no man stop our flight From Letras Mania