Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Chris Whitley
Canonical path: /chris-whitley/wide-open-return
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Wide Open Return
Read Wide Open Return lyrics by Chris Whitley on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Wide Open Return
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No time lost to passersbye
lonesome transmission
the miles decide
everyday departures
loosen from the land
all the wide open returns
in your stride
Other lifetimes may
graze your sleeve
the lonesome panorama
don't deceive
faithful revolution
blinds you to the ground
in the wide open return
you leave
City of God
transverse homes
palace of dust
kingdom come
renegade weed
vagrant wire
heretic seed
named desire
Blurring lines at burning speed
into the lonesome future
you recede
strained to transvision
beyond the laws that blind
to the wide open returns
you bleed
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Chris Whitley performs "Wide Open Return", and this lyric page sits inside the Chris Whitley catalog on LyroVerse.
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