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Movin’ slowly along a distant track
My mind goes back in time you’re standing at the station
When did I decide I was never coming back?
On a single track wheels turn in my head,
The train runs right on time each night as I lie here and go over
The broken ties and the lines I left unsaid.
At some point we took different lines
But you became the mother of our children
That’s why you’re still here in the quiet times.
On a single track wheels turn in my head,
The train runs right on time each night as I lie here and go over
The broken ties and the lines I left unsaid.
Just to let you know you're on my mind after all these years.
On a single track wheels turn in my head,
The train runs right on time each night as I lie here and go over
The broken ties and the lines I left unsaid.
The broken ties and these lines left unsaid.
At the dark circles under her eyes,
After too many nights without sleeping
She’s finally realized.
That the man in her life won’t ever change
His ways are written in stone,
She can follow a road going nowhere
Or she can start a new life of her own.
She’s packing up her things,
She had to use a little soap
To remove her wedding ring.
There’s a mark on her finger
Where the ring used to be,
And she knows that it will fade
Long before the memory.
They were just so much pie in the sky,
And he’d always blame her for his failures
But she could never understand why.
In spite of all this she didn’t hate him
But she hated what she had become,
Just something to take all the anger he spilled
And soak it all up like a sponge.
She looks ’round the house once more,
She hears the taxi waiting
She’s walking out the door.
She’s got a ticket for the Northwest
She tries to block the fear,
So she thinks of where she’s going
They say it’s nice this time of year.
It’s been a year I must be movin’ on,
When I came to this ol’ town I was just passin’ through
You’re the only reason why I stayed this long.
Strings that tied me here tug at my heart along the road,
All I’ve got is my old guitar and a change of clothes
I’m trav’lin’ light, carrying a load.
They’re as hard to find as ways to say good-bye,
I planned I'd say but lost them all
The moment I saw you cry.
Strings that tied me here tug at my heart along the road,
All I’ve got is my old guitar and a change of clothes
I’m trav’lin’ light, carrying a load.
But I can't stay just because we get along,
But the leavin’ would be easier if I could only find
Just one thing you done wrong.
Strings that tied me here tug at my heart along the road,
All I’ve got is my old guitar and a change of clothes
I’m trav’lin’ light, carrying a load.
When I was a young boy learning ’bout love
Dating the girls in high school,
They’d love me and leave me; break my young heart
Soon I was everyone’s fool
A wise man told me; you have to learn
When the time is right to let go,
Learn from your mistakes, and then you move on
That’s a lesson in love that everybody should know.
The winners in love don’t dwell on the heartaches
They learn from their mistakes and move on.
While the losers in love learn nothing at all
They’re too busy cryin’ over what went wrong.
Now I am older and I’ve loved many women
There were even a few that loved me,
But I always knew when it was time to let go
And the time to set someone free.
I will admit there were times when it hurt
But I told myself wounds always heal,
You don’t have control of the one who is leaving
But you do have control of the way that you feel.
The winners in love don’t dwell on the heartaches
They learn from their mistakes and move on.
While the losers in love learn nothing at all
They’re too busy cryin’ over what went wrong.