Running In Circles

And he said he was leaving & he'd be back again next fall & he said he was leaving He made sure that the clerk left a wake up call &he said he would say goodbye & his love life burned like a fire in the night He never He never even bothered to call

He'd been pumped up Jumped up for too damn long Walking back with screaming midnight songs Been sleeping on a train tracks a little too long Running in circles all day long

& she worked in the beauty shop At the Parkway Plaza Mall Saving all of her pennies just waiting for the day he'd be back to call & she sat by the phone each night with the candlelight vigil on But he never He never even bothered to call

He'd been pumped up Jumped up for too damn long Walking back with screaming midnight songs Been sleeping on a train tracks a little too long Running in circles all day long

She's waiting & praying & hoping for love But love don't come easy Sometimes love don't come at all
And the word is capturing out On the 6 o'clock evening news About a man in a robbery looking like the 24 hour flu And they never did take him alive & the shots rang out like a bell in the night & she spread his ashes over Houston Texas that fall

He'd been pumped up Jumped up for too damn long Walking back with screaming midnight songs Been sleeping on a train tracks A little too long Running in circles all day long

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