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Memphis Skyline (Lyric) by wilco I remember sitting on the banks
in the January night
Looking for the remnants
of the last December light.
And the houses on the hill are watching
as the riverboats drift by
And it seems like only yesterday
I was under the Memphis sky.
So cancel all your New Years plans
because Iâm coming home.
I donât remember any of this
and I donât want to be alone
Everything looks perfect here
but no oneâs quite the same.
Iâve been gone a bit too long
and it seems Iâm lost again.
All I want is to be honest,
but the past keeps telling lies
Iâm sorry that I answered so fast
and Iâm sorry I made you cry.
And the houses on the hill are watching
as the riverboats drift by
And it seems like only yesterday
I was under the Memphis sky.
So cancel all your New Years plans
because Iâm coming home.
I donât remember any of this
and I donât want to be alone.
Up the ladder:
in this bus terminal of the future
Down the ladder:
My Guardian Angel
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Posted: January 25, 2005 7:35 PM PST; Last modified: January 25, 2005 7:35 PM PSTWeighted score: 5.7732067 Overall Rank: 1744 Comments:
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Dan garcia-Black @ 66.159.205.75
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25-Jan-05/7:48 PM
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Good lyric. The line "sitting on the banks" makes me wonder if it should be "sitting on the bank." I don't know if Memphis has several rivers with banks upon which to sit or a river with one bank and another on the other side. Still, I like it-9-.
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wilco @ 24.165.207.93
> Dan garcia-Black
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25-Jan-05/7:51 PM
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Really, it's just one big long bank, but it here in the south, we make everything plural, even if it should be singular. i.e. - calling one person y'all. ;o)
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Dan garcia-Black @ 69.236.20.55
> wilco
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26-Jan-05/7:35 AM
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I remember ordering dinner at a Ponderosa Steakhouse in Dallas. The waitress stopped me in mid-sentence to tell me, "Y'all sure do talk funny." I guess it goes both ways. Sorry to mention that "Y'all sure do talk funny."
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Dovina @ 205.184.70.141
> Dan garcia-Black
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26-Jan-05/10:29 AM
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All three of you are drunk and seeing double.
-Nods-
Shaky but I can still groove. Has a slight villanelle feel to it.
I like a good song and hate to complain in the middle of a hill-billy gittin-back-tagether tune, but if you remember all this in Verse 1, why don't you remember any of it in Verse 3? An' ain't it presumptious of y'all askin' her ta cancel her New Years plans and all. You'uns stay with us, hear. It ain't all that bad.
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