Crowd Of Drifters Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

Sometimes the road is too long 

You meet all kinds of people 

Some of them cast no shadow 

They have no reflections 

Take a look in your photo book 

I'm not there anymore 

I was a traveling salesman 

I got lost on the back roads 

Fell in with a crowd of drifters 

Sometimes the sun is too bright 

And it burns you like acid 

You get to love driving at night 

The moon is so close you can kiss it 

I used to remember you smiling and waving 

I don't think I can anymore 

I was a traveling salesman 

I got lost on the back roads 

Fell in with a crowd of drifters 

We come, unnoticed, at sundown 

At the start of a blackout 

We set bonfires all over town 

And it's over by morning 

Sometimes we bring the rat and the wolf 

And sometimes the worm 

I was a traveling salesman 

I got lost on the back roads 

Fell in with a crowd of drifters