MIGHT AS WELL BE MEMPHIS (Jeff Silver and Vickie Hopper)
Silvercraft Music (ASCAP) / Queen of Denmark (BMI)
Leaving is easy - just hit the gas and you’re gone
I crossed the Mississippi headed west through Arkansas
Thought I’d outrun the pain - all I needed to do
Was get as far as I could from Union Avenue
Where there’s no chance of you around every corner
Someplace new where I could start over
But it…
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Might as well be Memphis
For all the good it’s done me
Searching for a place to hide
Where thoughts of you won’t haunt me
The scenery has changed
But the streets all feel the same
And my heart can’t tell the difference
It might as well be Memphis
Five days of driving you finally run out of road
I settled down outside this little town along the coast
There’s salt in the air, the horizon is clear
How’d your shadow manage to find me here
In my dreams every night, even down by the shore
After two thousand miles I haven’t come very far
So it…