Because of Toledo - Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Because of Toledo

I got sober and stayed clean

Pickups in the wild prairies

Shadows dancing in between

Girl leans on your jukebox

In a pair of old blue jeans

Says I live here but I don’t really

Live anywhere

Because of Toledo

Tuesday, it’s raining

And I’m pulling on my shoes

Guess I quit believing in

Early morning news

There’s a boy order his coffee

And settled down to think

How the women that you love sometimes

Are the water that you drink

Then another faded waitress, dressed in pink

Cries for Toledo

The lipstick and the cocaine traces

One face in a thousand faces

I stumble through so many places

Because of Toledo

The highway looks so thin

I see another motel sign

And I think of pulling in

Write your name upon the mirror there

Only secret that I know

But I guess that I’d be only

Chasing rainbows