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Artist: Grant Lee Phillips
Canonical path: /grant-lee-phillips/buckaroo
Related lyric paths: 6
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Buckaroo
Read Buckaroo lyrics by Grant Lee Phillips on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Buckaroo
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Curled-up by the station you are
Nothing to your name but a bag on your shoulder well
Where could you be bound
No one there to say goodbye
Waitin' for a train to take you out to another life
All dreams let you down
There's a world outside
Your mama doesn't want you to know about
Where the night's alive and vellum coaches cruise
With their black windows down
It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Light a-coming down the track
You wonder what you're leaving but you can't help looking back
You're still as death as in a photograph
There's a world ahead
That you've only read of in magazines
Where the sidewalks shine with the names of stars
From the silver screen
It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Once back at home they'll be laughing and counting the days
'Til you return oh that they never learn
That you don't live for them anyway
No you don't live for them anyway
It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Ooh ooh
Still wild
Still wild
It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Ooh ooh
Ooh you're still wild
Still wild
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