Albany

When did things stop working

And when did things seem to get so hard?

I miss the days we'd hang out drinking and staying out in the yard

Stay up a quarter past 3:00

It was him, it was you, it was me

Oh, where could we be?

Well, when you looked out

Did you think that we would all be stars

Or were we already driving away in our separate cars?

Singing Pancho and Lefty

We were crying on the interstate

And it wasn't even noon yet

We were leaving Albany

The sun will set, and our time would surely end

And by the summer's end, I had lost my best friend

Well, you just couldn't be there, and I guess things weren't meant to be

And it all would surely end, just like it did that summer's eve

I hear that train whistle blowing as I sing to you tonight

And do you remember when we'd ride those rails together till we died?

And I'm just trying to reach you, but you seem so far away

Oh please, my friend, please just stay

And won't you

Take me down

Take me down

Take me down to the lake

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