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Runaway Girl

from American Gothic by Stuart Pearson

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What happens when you pick up a hitch hiker on a road you don't remember driving on?

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RUNAWAY GIRL
Stuart Pearson

A silhouette grows
Into a runaway girl
My headlights dancing in the rain
The road is an S.O.S.
Of mud and debris
Spit out by this orphaned hurricane
The sky paints charcoal swirls of gray
Where rays of light withdrew
I bid a hello to the runaway girl
“And I To You”

I said “Where are you going”
“Tell me where have you gone?”
Her lip curled with her curt reply
I didn’t react
I just kept driving on
Although I couldn’t fathom why
As time dragged chains
Through this grim terrain
A single thought burst through
If she’s just another runaway girl
Where is she running to?

“Why did you choose this road?
Is crisis all that you know?
How far will you go?”

“Why do you look for heaven?
Why do you look for hell?”

Two headlights approach me
With a runaway girl
Their headlights dancing in the rain
Given this S.O.S. of mud and debris
They won’t be dancing here again
The sky is its sickly charcoal gray
The hurricane blew through
The driver pulls over
“Sir I bid you hello”
And I
And I
To you
You should runaway girl
You should runaway girl
You should runaway girl

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from American Gothic, released November 10, 2023
Everything played and/or messed with by Stuart Pearson

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Stuart Pearson Los Angeles, California

“Dark Americana: Stories and Songs”: sepia-toned, dog-eared vistas of America’s struggles with sin and redemption that jumps cobwebbed eras from the 1860’s to the 1960’s. hollywoodtrax.bandcamp.com/album/dark-americana-stories-and-songs

"Dark Americana 2: Mohave" reflects the desert: dark folk, rustic, dangerous, in ruins and foreboding; breathing hallucinatory American mythology.
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