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I Can't Return

from California by Paul Curreri

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I can never return
To the sun-swept future's runway
Where it always was my turn
To become what I could daydream
It's as distant as the star that waits for the evening
And somehow as clear
I can never go back, never go back
Now that you're here
I was never that smart
But I could fit into tiny pieces
I had plans to slip
Into that rocket ship's dark glovebox
But as I watched the rocket's tail dive over the stars
And light began to measure years
I knew I could never go back, never go back
Now that you're here

As long as the sing song's sung on high
So long to the left behind
I wish every man and woman could kiss my wife
Friends you are looking at a man
Who is honestly saved
It ain't hard for me to say it, I'm a man who's saved

I can never go back
To making light out've all that darkness
I really used to really drink it in
I tacked it up besides my Van Gogh posters
But the moment I saw you, my house fell to splinters
And Edgar Allen kissed Edward Lear
I can never go back, never go back
Now that you're here

I can never return
To romancing Big Empty
I'm not saying that the highway isn't real
It just starts and stops at home
One can travel perpendicular to 3D space
It's simpler than it appears
I can never go back, never go back
Now that you're here

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from California, released October 6, 2009

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