NOTES: This song is on Jim's first album, Sometimes I Wake Up Naked released July, 2002. Go to the Buy The CD page to purchase your copy. 

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JIM LESSES: lead vocal, guitar; JOHN MUNRO: lead guitar, mandolin; DON HOLDERNESSE: bass guitar; HUGH GORDON: Violin; TRISH SMYLIE, JANE BARR: harmonies

The Crying Ground
© 1999, Jim Lesses. All Rights Reserved.
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I hit the highway running, from the girl I left behind,
She could have seen it coming, but I guess she’s not that kind.
There’s nothing left between us, but this highway out of town,
And a thousand other back roads, leading to the crying ground.

I should have told her something, as I walked out of the door,
But anything I had to say, had all been said before.
I closed the door behind me, and I did not make a sound,
I just headed down the highway, leading to the crying ground.

And I’m cry-y-ing, for the dreams I left behind,
Cry-y-ing, for the shadows in my mind,
Shadows I don’t understand that cause my head to pound,
And they chase me down the highway leading to The Crying Ground.

A thousand words lie on my lips, but still I can not find,
A way to say ‘I love you’, without crossing over lines.
I don’t know where I’m coming from, and I don’t know where I’m bound,
I’m just heading down the highway, leading to the crying ground.

Chorus

The highway goes forever, it feels good to be alive,
Tyres go on singing underneath the overdrive.
I turn my radio up loud, and I cover up the sound,
Of me heading down the highway, leading to the crying ground.

Chorus

I hit the highway running, from the girl I left behind...

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