Jesse Waldman Music

Lyrics

In Moose Jaw Saskatchewan, down a winding country road
All the quiet that you'd want is there to get to know
Church bells and waving wheat and snow geese fill the air
But there's a darkness underneath this small town's honest prayer

Carrie Anne was born there, she was an orphaned only child
Her forest eyes and auburn hair would radiate for miles
They said that she was only young when her innocence was robbed
She hitched a ride to Edmonton with a trucker named Crow Bob

Sometimes the danger of escape outweighs the hell
Of the secrets that estrange you though you learn to hide them well, she said...

I've only come to leave, leaving's what I do
Cause when you've got no place to be, you're just kinda passin' through
So tonight I'll ride through the ice and snow to hide
From the memories that haunt me and the shimmering divide
Of the skeletons that lie... on this golden countryside

Up north in the oil rigs where the money flows like blood
There's a void that's wide and deep, it's more felt than understood
It's hard partyin' most nights and hiding through the days
Ya get hardened when ya fight the urge to break away

She said “everywhere is different, and everywhere's the same”
When you're just a dirty secret in a cheating man's game

I've only come to leave, leaving's what I do
Cause when you've got no place to be, you're just kinda passin' through
So tonight I'll ride through these empty cattle fields
With this scratchy am radio and the drone of spinning wheels, with Satan at my heels
With only half a soul to steal