Parking Lot At Dawn

from Desolation Sound by Luke Maynard

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17. Parking Lot At Dawn

You can have another hour;
Don’t you worry ’bout the time.
I’ll get up and make the coffee,
For I’ve got something on my mind.

Down below the bedroom window,
In the parking lot at dawn,
Everybody’s going somewhere;
Everyone’s just tryin’ to get there—
Well, everybody’s movin’ on.

All the promises that I can make
All the words that I might find to say,
Maybe all we have is time to take—
But I want to take that time.
All the lonely nights that we have spent,
No need to call ’em rushing back again,
Rushin’ back again.
Days of love don’t last forever,
But I will never be unkind.

I can hear them in the morning
In the pickup trucks below,
Leased-to-buy on speculation
Of the places they will go.

Everyone’s in such a hurry,
But it’s all the same to me:
When we peel out on the pavement,
We’re all victims of enslavement
To the folks we’re tryin’ to be.

And all the promises that we can make,
All the words that we might find to say,
Maybe all we have is time to take—
But I want to take that time.
All the lonely nights that we have spent,
No need to call them rushing back again,
Rushing back again,
For I may not always love you—
But I will never be unkind.

You can have another hour;
Don’t you worry ’bout the time.
For I may not always love you,
But I will never be unkind.
Yes, I will never be unkind.

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from Desolation Sound, released June 30, 2018
All vocals & instruments by Luke Maynard
Written by Luke Maynard

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Luke Maynard Toronto, Ontario

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, old-school Canadian acoustic troubaour, and all-purpose sonic roustabout.

Loitering around the upper frets since 1996.

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