Jimmie Rodger's Dream

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated

THE UNION

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Jimmie Ridger's Dream

Music & lyrics by Elton John, Leon Russell, T Bone Burnett & Bernie Taupin 2010

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I'm looking at a funeral wagon rolling down

A two-lane highway winding past a desert town

A big blue canvas painted by the Master's hand

The shifting clouds above and endless miles of sand

 

 

In that mirror maybe that's what's left of me

Wheezing like a freight train hauling sixty tons of steel

Air 'em out's the best release and get some rest

Carrie don't wait up for me the brakeman's going West

 

In this room all alone I dream of you

In this drawer I found someone I never knew

Now I pop a top and stay up late with Gideon

And fall asleep to visions of Meridian

 

I've seen dusty beaten delta boys cutting heads

A black face carney showman scare a song to death

In my short life I've seen as much as most men need

I'm just looking for some cleaner air to breathe

 

Far away, far away

So many years, so many days

All along this broken land

I've seen a lover's empty arms

And hunger's empty hand

Done