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Album: Sojourner's Song
Bob is a truck out of Phoenix
He drives I-40 once a week at least
and lately when he's heading out towards Tennessee
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.
Now her memory's pulling like a magnet
so last week he starting looking for Suzanne.
He remembers that her eyes are blue, or are they green?
After 20 years go by its hard to say.
Then his sister Peggy sent a photograph
taken down in Texas just last May.
He swears she looks a whole lot like her mother
the way that grown up daughters often can.
So he tapes her picture square upon his dashboard
picks up another load and goes looking for Suzanne.
When there are pieces of our lives left unattended.
And the scares from broken hearts go unmended.
Until the feelings we've forgotten overtake us like a flood.
That's how it always is 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
and say a prayer that she will be at home.
After several rings someone finally answers.
His heart is in his throat; sweats in his hands.
He says, "I wonder can you help me?
I'm 20 years too late,
but my name is Bob and I'm looking for Suzanne."
Then it's past. He hangs up the receiver
a little less a father more a man.
Then 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.
And the scares from broken hearts go unmended.
Until the feelings we've forgotten overtake us like a flood.
That's how it always is with flesh and blood.
That's how it has to be with flash and blood.
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