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Slip Away

Free and clean, you're daddy's girl, dancin' down in Mexico,
all night long and nobody knows. You're just a poet and you had to go slip away.

Slip away.
They try to love but you slip away.

It's been a while since you paid a bill. Forgiveness is a shallow well.
What you're given is all you've got- the way you look and the way you smell slip away.

Slip away.
They try to love but you slip away.

Can't go home again for shame. You try to make it in a border town,
running tar to hotel rooms. The sailor boys call you down. You slip away.

Slip away.
They try to love but you slip away.

Even when the deal goes south, you never figure yourself for a slave.
Confederacy is the easy way out, but you take your freedom to your grave and slip away.

Slip away.
They try to love but you slip away.

Your uncle came and picked you up. You was toe-tagged and skin and bone.
Took you back to Shasta Lake, but nobody ever took you home. You slipped away.

Slipped away.
They tried to love but you slipped away.

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from You Can't Outrun The Radio, released October 13, 2014

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Jonathan Byrd Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Preacher's kid, Gulf War veteran, award-winning songwriter, Youtuber, teacher, and creativity coach from North Carolina.

“One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” — Chicago Tribune

“...a folk singer with the heart of a rock 'n' roll band.” — K. Oliver, Free Times.
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