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What About the Friends I Left Behind

from Live By Your Word by Eric Dahl

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What About the Friends I Left Behind

© 2011 by Eric Dahl

There was a guy shouting into a pay phone
As I scraped the red clay and the tar
At the carwash last night
Wiping the water off of my car.
He was saying, “Baby that’s not good enough —
What about the friends I left behind?”

It happens to me everywhere, good times come to mind,
Driving an unfamiliar highway, good times come to mind,
But that’s not good enough, what about the friends I left behind?
Let all acquaintance be forgot,
bring me champagne, the best vintage
As the century goes down in Vicksburg, Mississippi,
like water under the bridge
But that’s not good enough,
what about the friends I left behind?

I started north from Marble Falls to Waco,
crossed the cotton fields of Corsicana
And in the refinery lights and the casinos of Shreveport
Good times came to mind.
Crossed the river at Vicksburg about midnight.
What about the friends I left behind?

Pulled off twenty through Lawrence, Newton
and Chunky Mississippi,
Good times came to mind,
But I keep hearing this guy at the car wash
Shouting into a pay phone:
“Baby that’s not good enough —
What about the friends I left behind?”

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from Live By Your Word, released July 1, 2011

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Eric Dahl Seattle, Washington

His music ranges from acoustic neo-rockabilly to thoughtful and reflective with a voice somewhere between Johnny Cash and Lou Reed.

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