I Tried Going West Lyrics - Ashes & Roses - Mary Chapin Carpenter

I tried going west where the sky meets the sun 

Where the edge of the world's always been 

As far from this place as a girl gets to run 

When her reasons to stay have worn thin 

Out there the days were so bright and so blue 

Yet I missed all my thunder and rain 

The way a storm punctures a hot afternoon 

Washing away every stain 

When my maps pointed north they were calling for snow 

To cover all sound and all sight 

Tell me where on this earth does all that noise go 

Underneath all of that white 

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With thaws scarcely mentioned I dug out my truck 

By the time the storm cleared I was gone 

Back on the road with the radio up 

Singing at the top of my lungs 

Driving and crying and driving some more 

Oh the south is a good place to hide 

Hot nights, cold beer and creaky screen doors 

And a motel's vacancy sign 

A letter a day I wrote back home to you 

But not one you ever received 

Because I can't stand a man who lies like you do 

And I can't bear a woman who pleads 

One day it dawned I had run out of road 

And out of reasons to run 

Like a horse to the barn I was hell bent to go 

As fast going back as I'd come 

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Home, home was the song that I sang 

As I pulled in just before dark 

There was only a hook where your coat used to hang 

That's where I hung up my heart 

I tried going west, where the sky meets the sun