Highway 29 - Bruce Springsteen
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I slipped on her shoe, she was a perfect size seven
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I said there's no smokin' in the store ma'am
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She crossed her legs and then
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We made some small talk, that's where it should have stopped
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She slipped me a number, I put it in my pocket
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My hand slipped up her skirt, everything slipped my mind
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In that little roadhouse
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On highway 29
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It was a small town bank, it was a mess
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Well I had a gun, you know the rest
Money on the floorboards, shirt was covered in blood
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And she was cryin', her and me we headed south
C
On highway 29
Am7 F
In a little desert motel, the air it was hot and clean
C G
l slept the sleep of the dead, I didn't dream
Am7 F
I woke in the morning washed my face in the sink
C G
We headed into the Sierra Madres 'cross the borderline
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The winter sun, shot through the black trees
Am7
I told myself it was all something in her
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But as we drove I knew it was something in me
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Something had been comin' for a long long time
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And something that was here with me now
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On highway 29
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The road was filled with broken glass and gasoline
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She wasn't sayin' nothin', it was just a dream
The wind come silent through the windshield
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All I could see was snow and sky and pines
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I closed my eyes and I was runnin',
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Yeah, I was runnin' then I was flyin'.....
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