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Another Town Along the Road

from Prisoners of the Heart by Mark Lucas

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written on the balcony of the Top Pub in Tully FNQ some time in 1982

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Friday night found me on a barstool
Making time with another glass of beer
Making love to a waitress from the far Northwest
Tryin’ to make sense of this place

This is not the state I came so far to find
Though who knows what the future holds
It’s a familiar tale to tell there was someone I once knew well
And this is just another town along the road

I’ve been lookin’ at the world through a windshield
I can call too many houses home
But that old white line fever drives me on
A man can be so many people when he’s alone

I’ve seen an old traveller’s eyes getting weary
There’s no romance left to keep him going
And every place along the way he left part of him behind
Is just another town along the road

Lord there’s nothing like the feeling
You hear that freight whistle blow
From boxcars to Boeings or just a dusty track
There’s still another town along the road

When this old world treats me like a stranger
When the sands are running dry
I’ll be ready to go anywhere flowin’ with the tide
In every hello there’s a goodbye

And the man at the gate might call out my name
For you know this life is but a loan
No matter where it leads you know it still feels like home
Heaven’s just another town along the road

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from Prisoners of the Heart, released January 22, 2019

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Mark Lucas Sydney, Australia

Australian roots music – it’s a sense of place. In singer-songwriter Mark Lucas' word picture world you’ll encounter ghosts of the past & yearning spirits of the present, making themselves known in a variety of familiar locales, together with a motley cast of misfits & dreamers who could fit in just about anywhere there’s people & stories to tell. ... more

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