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Goodbye, VA

from Live at Grand Salon by Mike McMonagle

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It's not a defeat. Just a solemn goodbye.

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Well the cold don't feel like the winters of my youth.
Been raining 'stead of snowing and the wind keeps blowing blues.
I been on the sidewalk praying for some change.
Got an empty cup of coffee that's just dying to be saved.

Said my name is unimportant, I've grown tired of that race.
Been walking 'stead of running, never keeping up to pace.
Got my share of shadows no light could ever kill.
I was born a doubter, now I'm full of doubting still.

I'll tell you 'bout my future but don't ask me 'bout my past.
Was born in Pennsylvania, now I'm ready to get back.
Looking for the exits to deliver me back home.
Paying tolls with good intentions, they're the only things I still own.

So it's goodbye, Virginia; to the District, fair thee well.
Been living 'stead of dying, now I'm thankful for the spell.
For 24 months I've been holding up my chin.
Lived 24 years now I'm ready to begin.

So goodbye, Virginia.
I'm going home.

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from Live at Grand Salon, released June 3, 2011
Michael McMonagle

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Mike McMonagle Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Mike McMonagle writes & performs songs that fall somewhere on the folk-roots-rock-n-roll spectrum. Born, raised and now residing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he uses his songcraft as a modest attempt at making good on his existence in this world.

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