Hoping For Raleigh

Hoping For Raleigh 

“I made it down the coast in seventeen hours

Picked me a bouquet of dogwood flowers,

And I’m hoping for Raleigh

So I can see my baby tonight.”

I’ve given up on seeing lines and lanes

I just wanna feel that satin and lace

I wouldn’t care if I drove off this road,

If the risk was anything but seeing your face.

I didn’t say I was coming

Because im just feeling needy.

I need to make it just far enough south

To get you to hold me.

You told me not to leave when I did,

Said I couldn’t bear the cold.

Warm me up baby-

I’ll never grow up, im just getting old.

I bet you have a life now

Some big plans and a big deal

Cause you were always good at being good

And I don’t know how not to steal.

If I run out of cigarettes and these flowers die on my dash,

I’ll knock on our door with petals and Marlboro ash.

I hear they’re cheap here in Raleigh,

“So I can see my baby tonight” .