| Lyrics: | I've never had a way with women,
but the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could
And I've
never found a way to say "I love you",
but if the chance came by, oh, I, I would
But way
back where I come from, we never mean to bother,
we don't like to make our passions other
people's concern
And we walk in the world of safe people,
and at night we walk into our
houses and burn.
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Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa
Iowa, Iowa,
Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa
How I long to fall just a little bit,
to dance out of
the lines and stray from the light
But I fear that to fall in love with you
is to fall
from a great and gruesome height
So I asked a friend about it, on a bad day,
her husband
had just left her, she sat down on the chair he'd left behind
She said, "What is love? Where
did it get me?
Whoever thought of love is no friend of
mine."
(chorus)
Once I had everything, I gave it up
for the shoulder of
your driveway and the words I've never felt
And so for you, I came this far across the tracks,
ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt (and I'd do it again)
For tonight I went
running through the screen doors of discretion,
for I woke up from a nightmare that I could
not stand to see:
You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa
and you were not thinking
of me.
(chorus |
