James Mcmurtry Down Across The Delaware lyrics

Down Across The Delaware by James Mcmurtry



Bills are paid but it makes no difference

To the gods that seem to rule our home

Heat shut off for no known reason

This old building's got a mind of its own



I can tell your footsteps on the stairs from three 

flights up

I know the jingling of your keys

You won't hear no and you don't look back and you can't 

slow down

These days you don't have much to say to me.



In another town what would fetch a good living

Here is barely hand to mouth

So I'm going out and get a U-Haul trailer

Drag it down the turnpike south



Where the Garden State gives way to the real world

Falls away in the rearview mirror

We'll mend our wounds and wait out the winter

Down across the Delaware



We get along in a manner of speaking

We barely have to speak at all

Small talk over take-out pizza

Silently passing in the hall

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