Robert Earl Keen - Road to No ReturnCarolina lyrics

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Out along the road to no return

Silence rules the day and knows no friend

The troubled past and all her tribe adjourn

To watch your dreams unravel in the wind

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But each new morning sunrise

Is just as good as gold

And all the hope inside you

Will keep you from the cold

Bare your soul let your spirit burn

Out along the road to no return

The sweet smell of nighttime rides on the breeze

The river is winding through the hickory trees

The redbones are howling down by Wilson's Bridge

The lawmen stand waiting upon Deadman's Ridge

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Ooh Carolina so dark I can't see

Ooh Carolina won't you let me go free

I came here with Lily a year just last fall

We left her old daddy back in Oonegal

We made us a home place of Black Mountain stone

But one cold winter morning I woke up alone

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Days full of silence are so incomplete

Nights without Lily I took to the streets

And in the streets of Asheville I channeled my pain

'Til one raging black night I slept in the rain

I dreamed of a refuge a red velvet world

And I swore my sweet Lily was one of the girls

I loved her so madly I loved her so long

I woke with my dream girl but her life was all gone

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Love has no boundary sorrow no end

And the lawmen of Asheville have no mercy in them

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Let me reach Tennessee