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What the Rocks Don't Know

from To Tell You the Truth by Willi Carlisle

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Well after twenty-nine years, I can say
I never thought it'd turn out this way.
I stumble and I stutter, stutter and I cry
Ain't gonna figure out a reason why
The song hurts my throat, the banjo cuts my side
Hear the road cryin' out to the railroad ties
Road cryin' out to the railroad ties

That well love your light don't show
Down by the truckstop highway glow
Lord knows where I'll go
When the road cries out what the rocks don't know
Road cries out what the rocks don't know.

All my friends in Arkansas, all alone in Maine
Six-to-one, half-dozen's the same
Back-Bay sailin' or the Great Divide,
Mississippi deep, Rappahannok wide,
Angels wings on a Wal-Mart sign,
Angels wings on a Wal-Mart sign.

And well love your light don't show
Down by the truckstop highway glow
Lord knows where I'll go
When the road cries out what the rocks don't know
Road cries out what the rocks don't know.

Kansas City rib shack baby you're mine,
Gimmie the pig the cow and the swine,
My weight is my love, my shimmy, my shine,
Damn I found Jesus in a barbecue line,
Damn I found Jesus in a barbecue line,

And well love your light don't show
Down by the truckstop highway glow
Lord knows where I'll go
When the road cries out what the rocks don't know
Road cries out what the rocks don't know.

Well, I'd like to see the world in livin' color,
But one color's just the absence of the others.
To get the whole spectrum of horror and elation
Call good time numbers at a Conoco Station
Good time numbers at a Conoco Station.

And well love your light don't show
Down by the truckstop highway glow
Lord knows where I'll go
When the road cries out what the rocks don't know
Road cries out what the rocks don't know.

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from To Tell You the Truth, released May 12, 2018

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Willi Carlisle Fayetteville, Arkansas

Folksinger/poet from the Midwest and upper South. Free Dirt Records.

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