Migration Theory

Train came in like a whisperin’ thief

Took the heat, left the grief

Smoke in the rafters, boots on the floor

Never did say what we came here for

WOOO!

Paper maps and pocket change

Highway signs get rearranged

Names don’t matter when the wind turns fast

You blink one time and the whole town’s passed

They say we move like birds in a dream

Trace the seams of the in-between

North by night and south by day

It’s not escape if you don’t stay

Loose leaf letters in a canvas sack

No return and no way back

Truck stop soup and a plastic spoon

Crickets playing us a night time tune

Gaslight gospel on the A.M. band

Preacher talks slow but don’t understand

We’re not runnin’, we just roll

Following a magnetic pull

They say we move like dots on a map

Fold the sky like a weathered flap

East in winter, west by June

Drawn like wolves to a blood-red moon

Someone said the earth was flat

Someone else said never mind that

All I know is shoes wear thin

And I ain’t found where I fit in

Broke-down line at the county line

Traded jokes for turpentine

Countin’ stars through a motel screen

Chasin’ things I’ve never seen

They say we move like ghosts in a tide

No address and no goodbyes

Where we land is theory, friend

We just begin and then begin again