Borderland - Choke Up

Dark avenues turn into open roads

Crowded tenements into well-kept homes

Some folks die wealthy and young with bitter hearts

Others stay healthy long enough to see joy wither and scar

I don’t want any part of it

To be the victim, the assailant, or the advocate

So we’re riding out to where we don’t exist

Headlights cutting bright into the darkness

Oh, obscurity has found me in a motel suite

A thousand miles from the refinery

And polluted streets we grew to resent

Where we’d coexist with poison family and bitter friends

Chain link or picket, no one was admitted to the winning end

We were all wolves or lambs for the man behind the curtain

Arguing in circles for the prosecution or the defense

Lying on the hood of the car watching the sun go down

The devil in me knows one day we’ll have to turn around

«Can you imagine,» Jenny says to me

As the moon rises over the beach

«Having our own place by the ocean?

I know it will never be

But isn’t it pretty to dream?»