Neal Dimick

Lyrics

1. All the good men have taken, they’re all gone
Don’t tell me what I know, I’ve been searching so long
The rest are broken or abused
They are the abandoned, the refused
I can’t look at them now
they all look too much like me
I can’t do this anymore, I can’t pretend
I don’t know the sound of morning’s door as it falls shut again
Or the way, the exact way, that the echoes fade and die

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I’m flat-out stranded in the middle of life
Too old to play the virgin, no longer a wife
Cast out of the only life I ever sought for my own
All the dreams of my girlhood, all tied up in two’s
The empty place at my table now stands to accuse
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life learning to waltz alone

2. Fifteen years, from girl to crone
He left to lay himself upon younger bones
And seek a love
Less born of knowledge than of dreams
I try not to hate him anymore
It’s just more sorrow than I need
I kept this house, it is my home
But the men of my age want only to roam
There’s nothing they’d surrender
To gain so little as me.

Chorus

Bridge
I met a handsome man one time
Smile brought smile as his eyes met mine
On his back, one of the eagles that soar in my dreams
And we tried the dance that lovers do
Some steps were false, but others were true
And on his iron horse we could fly
We could fly

3. In the end, he would not bet
More than he could lose without regret
Some mark on some highway was all he ever meant to leave
I still see him, sometimes
When he finds some time for me
I still dream of what could be
But the tears have sown their salt so deep in me
The key of hope presses sharp and rusty in my palm.