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Riding Home as the Ghosts Look On

from Apocalypse Songs by Aaron J. Shay

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Please don't leave me, please don't leave me
Please don't leave me behind

Pushing ninety on the freeway, my horse is covered in soot
Its iron hooves churn the concrete, it turns to gravel underfoot We maneuver between abandoned cars, completely eaten with rust Their ghosts call me to hear their stories
But I don't have time for their trust
I am riding home, I am riding home
With my heart tight like a fist
I am riding home, I am riding home
Praying that you still exist

No, I am not a soldier, I could never choose a side
And I am not a cowboy, though on a steel horse I ride
And you, you are not a damsel, you not waiting to be won
You are not waiting for me to save you
And this journey is far from done
I am riding home, I am riding home
To lie in our empty bed
I am riding home, I am riding home
And my phone is nearly dead

No good will come when I reach the city
When I pass through that gate
Only bad news and a troubled mind await
But even so, the never knowing
Would weigh me down like a stone
If your arms weren't waiting for me I could never make it alone
I am riding home, I am riding home To bad news and to you
I am riding home, I am riding home My only home is you

Please don't leave me, please don't leave me
Please don't leave me behind

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from Apocalypse Songs, released January 26, 2019

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Aaron J. Shay Seattle, Washington

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Sci-fi storyteller and banjo balladeer. I believe in the good kind of apocalypse.

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