Bottle Rockets - The Long Way lyrics

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Mark Ortmann/Brian Henneman

Met a child of the cosmos

On the streets of Kanab

Pointed the way

Answered the questions I had

But a short cut through Utah

Doesn't mean a bad trip

It just sends you through a mountain

Out a hole in a cliff

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The long way isn't the wrong way

A wrong turn isn't the end

If it's understood

Maybe somethin' good

Is comin' at you 'round the bend

Left Flagstaff in the morning

To make Salt Lake by night

Drivin' cross the moon

Hopin' it's right

When we went into a fog

Near the state line

Well we didn't care much

About losin' time

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On Highway 80 just outa the hills

Hit somethin' slick and about took a spill

On the plateau in snow axle deep

Still made Rock Springs

In time for some sleep

Been a mile high

For nearly a week

It's gonna wear off

Below twelve hunderd feet

Be comin' down soon

Travelin' I-35

Singin' songs and glad to be alive

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