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Endless Texas

from Road Movie by MDH

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"blowing dust under sunshine"

It’s a big place. There was an afternoon when I started to get a bit freaked out because we had been driving for an hour, at 90, and hadn’t passed another car.

“These really are strange places. Truck life must be a very drab affair. I wonder how much more driving those guys do in a day than what we’re doing. We feel fatigued but at least we have company and the landscape is novel to us. Motel life must get sapping after a few weeks: Big Spring was another nowhere town that for some reason has a dozen full or nearly full motels. There is no reason to visit here, and no visible population to call on. One receptionist explains that the rooms are booked up by contract workers – the ones in front of me in one queue were there for a week. The thought of that makes us Londoners shudder – you may as well be going into deep space. Texas is endless – we are doing 90 on flat, straight roads and not getting anywhere, or so it seems. The only signs of life are the oil pumps tolling back and forth in the fields either side of us. Someone must come to check them but to us it’s like the last person here forgot to switch them off and left the country.”

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a steady ninety
the scenery won’t ever change
and rattlesnakes will line our way
and vultures soar to block the sun

it handles nicely
the radio is working now
to play those sweet duets somehow
they seem to move me every one

when they settled here the children and the wives, what did they hope to find?
and did they like it here once they had broken ground?
maybe they just liked the sound

of endless Texas
of open road
a thousand fence-posts re-articulate the sound
of endless Texas
of bullet holes
of breezes blowin dust under sunshine we have found
we have found endless Texas

a simple gear change
we drive an automatic car
it has to take us through lone star
and ever onwards towards the sun

a bold solution
I try to make my feet slow down
I try to make my heart not pound
it seems we three are born to run

and when they sat to paint the desert and the sky, what did they hope to find?
and did they like the view, the cacti and the clouds?
in particular they liked the sound

of endless Texas
of open road
a thousand fence-posts re-articulate the sound
of endless Texas
of bullet holes
of breezes blowin dust under sunshine we have found
we have found endless Texas

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from Road Movie, released September 1, 2014

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