Life and Island Times June 30 2016 – Duval Street

Key West’s Duval Street at night in the rain

Winding our way down on Duval Street
Light in our heads and dead on our feet
Another crazy day in the world, we’ll drink the night away
And forget about everything

The world events make you feel so cold
So many bad things happen, are we losing our souls
And it took us so long to find out we were wrong
When we thought Duval Street could hold everything back

We used to think that it was so easy
We used to say that it was so easy
But we’re tryin, we’re tryin now
Another year and then world wouldn’t be so crappy
Just one more year and then the world would be happy
But we’re cryin, we’re cryin now

Way down the street there’s a light in a dark place
We open the door, screwing up our face
And we ask ourselves where we’ve been, can’t remember who or what we’ve seen
And we talk about anything

We got a new dream about buying some land
Not giving up, we got a new magic plan
We’ll settle down in a quiet little southern town
And forget about everything

We might be crazy to keep on movin
Others tell us we’ll never gonna stop movin
Cause we’re rollin, we’re rollin stones
And when we wake up it’ll be a new mornin
The sun’ll be shinin, it’ll be a new mornin
Cause we’re goin, we’re goin home

Savannah’s Broughton Street at night in the rain

When we’re alone
We’ll dream on the horizon
and words will fail
Yes, we know there is no light
in a room where the sun is absent
The windows show everyone our hearts
Which they set alight
And enclose within us
the light we encountered on the street.

Time to say goodbye
to those we saw and shared with
now, we shall sail on ships across safe seas
which, we know, no, no, exist no longer
It’s time to say goodbye

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