Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Goodbye Carolina Blues

      
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Goodbye, Carolina. I felt cold and I felt weak. 
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I took the midnight bus from Asheville
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passed like a ghost  through Tennessee. Brushed the Northern edge of Blacksburg. Like your hair off of your
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cheeks. I wish I could fall asleep. Half-dead in the window seat-- awake for weeks.


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Good morning, Manhattan. Stopped a Port Authority. I’ll take the train under the
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river; ride the A out to the G.
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And I’ll walk along your narrow streets with a dollar cup of coffee, letting it
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stain my teeth. Two sugars,
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a drop of cream. Bittersweet.


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God damn I missed you, Brooklyn. Caught my breath here on your streets. I left my winter

coat in Charlotte.
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I’m cursing at the breeze. I’m hiding out from early March. Read the sign hung in

our lobby. The elevator
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broke last week. I walk the stairs to 403.


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I don’t blame you for changing the locks. I think I’d probably do the same if it
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were me. I’m gathering up the
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courage to knock. I’m not sure what I’m looking for. I don’t know what I want. I
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don’t want anything.
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I don’t want anything.


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Some college student answers and my heart crash-lands on the floor. He says he sublet

this place last month.
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He never heard of me before. He sees me there collapsing and he opens up the door.
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It’s all new furniture.
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I barely recognize it anymore.


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He says, I’m sorry, man. I wish that I knew more. I’m not sure exactly what you’re
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looking for, but no Diane,
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no, she don’t live here anymore, anymore, anymore.  Diane don’t live here anymore.