"Marco Polo I" lyrics

"Marco Polo I"

Playin' Marco Polo in a spring-fed pond
With some Mennonite boys from the dairy farm
One day they ran over our dog
We didn't forgive 'em but it wasn't their fault

I'm standin' on a fence
A dirt road runnin' through the middle of a peanut field
It looks the same on either side
Clean tight roads a perimeter to planted pines

But I can't sit in good conscience
Think a city girl will see the beauty in the place I live
The pecan orchard's forgotten
Blame it on the vision of a Tennessee business man

I don't wanna live without you now
I know a sky full of stars is just beyond the lights of town
I don't wanna live without you now
I know a sky full of stars is just beyond the lights of town
Shinin' down

Now I'm hungover in the highlands
Cryin' in the shower thinkin' 'bout my lost friends
Like one time I had to make a guillotine
Ben threw one together for a dime bag of weed

Didn't know it was the last time I'd hear him talk
Shoulda picked up the phone and returned his call
But when the tears stopped I wanted you so bad
It's funny how grief's an aphrodisiac

I don't wanna live without you now
And when I get home baby I'm gonna take you down
I don't wanna live without you now
I know a sky full of stars is just beyond the lights of town
Shinin' down

A new beginning every end
But we get to learn to love again
Make a memory, lose a friend
But we return to love again


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