Dave Alvin
(Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI, Administered by Bug Music)
I hope this letter finds you
Wherever you may be
âCause I mailed some awhile back
And they were all returned to me
Ainât nothinâ I can tell you âbout the hometown
Everything changes, but nothingâs new
Just Sunday night at the kitchen table
Finishinâ a beer and thinkinâ of you.
And I still work the same job
Just live with my mom for free
âCause ever since the old man passed on
It just got harder to leave.
Well I heard a rumor that you got married
Though you swore that you never would
I guess you finally got your own kids now
You ever tell âem âbout the old neighborhood?
Like the time we stole your dadâs car
Drove all night down Imperial Highway
You kept sayinâ âMaybe we should turn around,â
And I said âIt donât take much to get away.â
But I still work the same job
Just live with my mom for free
âCause ever since the old man passed on
It just got harder to leave.
Guess thatâs all that Iâve got to tell you
I guess things turned out how theyâre meant to be
I just hope that this letter finds you
But until then Iâll just keep it with me.
And I still work the same job
Just live with my mom for free
âCause ever since the old man passed on
It just got harder to leave.
