Buddy Greene - Looking For Susanne lyrics

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Looking For Suzanne

Bob is a trucker out in Phoenix,

He drives that 40 once a week at least,

And lately when he's headed out to Tenessee

He thinks about the life he left back East.

She was two years old, the Christmas Eve they left him

For reasons, he didn't fully understand

But now her memory's pulling like a magnet

So last week he started looking for Suzanne

He remembers that her eyes are blue or olive green

After 20 years go by, it's hard to say

And then his sister Peggy sends a photograph

Taken down in Texas just last May

He swears she looks a whole look like her mother,

The way that grown up daughters often can

So he tapes her picture sqaure upon his dashboard,

Picks up another load. And starts looking for Suzanne

When there are pieces of our lives

Left unattended

Then the scars from broken hearts

Go unmended

Until the feelings we'd forgotten,

Overtake us like a flood

That's how it always is

With flesh and blood

That's how it has to be

With flesh and blood

Today he stops his run just east of Nashville

Puts a quarter from his pocket, in a phone

He dials the number, information gave him

Then says a prayer that she will be at home

After several rings someone finally answers

His heart is in his throat, sweat's in his hands

He says "I wonder, can you help me, I'm 20 years to late,

But My name is Bob and I'm looking for Suzanne"

And in his pass, he hangs up the receiver

At little less a father, more a man

Then he walks down to the corner

Where he'll meet her

And spends one last moment looking for Suzanne

When there are pieces of our lives

Left unattended

Then the scars from broken hearts

Go unmended

Until the feelings we'd forgotten

Overtake us like a flood

That's how it always is

With flesh and blood

That's how it has to be

With flesh and blood