I've got to ride... to be free again #40

Never was the kind to do as I was told... series

(Ride like the wind, Christopher Cross, 1979)

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If I didn't know you by now

would I ever hang the blinds

upon my window?

fold away and pack up

all my clean clothes

without complaining? and

 

If I didn't know you by now

wouldn't know about

the curling leaves of autumn

folding in and browning

at the bottom before falling so

 

If I go tomorrow I go green

flush with all the places I have seen

hope to find you waiting there

wherever this may lead

I'd have packed it up and turned around

If I didn't know you by now

If I didn't know you by now and

 

If I didn't know you by now

wouldn't know about electromagnetism

how a shark can feel it

when you're swimming near him

but still let you go and

 

If I didn't know you by now

wouldn't know about

your brother's tears in your eyes

he got drunk again with

swallowing the starlight

and never made it home so

 

If I go tomorrow I go green

flush with all the places I have seen

hope to find you waiting there

wherever this may lead

I'd have packed it up and turned around

If I didn't know you by now

If I didn't know you by now so

 

put that record on "Atlantic City"

and we'll drive there in the dark

while there's still time

we haven't closed

all the doors to the night

still feels good to lean

my head into your side cause

 

If I didn't know the way

you'd come to me

through the first snow you find me there

fallen in the fog light

when I told you I was hopeless

you said "Alright"

you carried me back through the big night

big night

(If I didn't know you by now, Rookin, 2018)

Done