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The Highway Song (Monoxide Song)
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Wrote late high school, linking the environment to love. About commitment and betrayal.
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Paul Arenson is a sometimes singer, songwriter, teacher and political activist, born in NY, resident physically in Japan and Boston. Puccini and Seeger were bot
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Peak #175
Peak in subgenre #50
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Paul Arenson
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Paul Arenson
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September 08, 2006
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MP3 2.8 MB 160 kbps 3:03
Story behind the song
The usual yourthful exhuberance, the fear of selling out or being sold out, the notion that one has to stick to his or her principles.....
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I drove out of the city like a thousand fools must do Searching for the vanishing green grassy dew But where there had been forests in rocky hills bejewelled By sparkling springs and canyons, the highway had poked through It poked through the green and grassy land I loved Ripped right on through the dreams I dreamed would triumph above All the shit they pile upon us when our heads are in the ground And I'll follow the path of wonder throught the wood And never let monoxide bring me down I came upon a girl in a field of flowers free I asked her would she like to spend the night with me We roamed the woodland vallies and drank the mountain wines Shared the starlit evening with the berries on the vines One dark and misty morning I woke and found her gone And on the nearest hillside a highway pierced the dawn So come you woodland rovers who love the grassy dew Never sleep the evening or a highway may poke through It'll lead out of the city and a thousand fools like you Will wonder where's the vanishing green grassy dew
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