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HE NEVER CAME BACK
FROM MEXICO
Brian
Burns – Nunn Publishing (BMI)
Flyin’ high
on a blacktop sky, moon shinin’ on the desert tonight,
five-hundred
miles down the Pan American Highway…
leavin’
Texas broke my heart, but I’m off to a brand new start;
they’ll be
wonderin’ where I am by Friday.
I’m checkin’
out of that same old grind, nothin’ but blue skies on my
mind.
Back home I
know they’ll say, “we told him not to go, but he went
anyway,
and he never
came back from Mexico. What he’s doin’ now, nobody
knows.
He left here
a long time ago, and he never came back.”
I’m takin’
on a golden glow on the seashores of Manzanillo,
chasin’ the
wind where the sea meets the Sierra Madres.
She runs
barefoot in my dreams, the Spanish angel in faded blue
jeans.
Somethin’ in
her eyes seems to whisper, “follow me.”
I’m givin’
up on that nine-to-five;
it’s time I
started livin’ my own damn life.
Back home I
know they’ll say, “we told him not to go, but he went
anyway,
and he never
came back from Mexico. What he’s doin’ now, nobody
knows.
He left here
a long time ago, and he never came back.”
I’ll be
drinkin’ that Cuervo Gold; I’m getting’ young before I
get old.
They’ll say,
“he’s in trouble somewhere; hell, he must have gone
crazy down there…
‘cause he
never came back from Mexico, and what he’s doin’ now,
God only knows.
He left here
a long, long time ago, and he never came back
from Old
Mexico.”
Brian
Burns – Vocals, Bass, Drums, Percussion,
Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar, Electric Piano,
Acoustic Razor
Gary
Carpenter – Pedal Steel Guitar
Matt
Thigpen,
Bob Livingston – Backing Vocals
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