Towny boys would love the way you stare
If you were here in starkville
Well the local girls they wouldn't have a prayer
Well I've spent a reckless night inside the wonder
Of your everlasting charm
Now I'm haunted by geography and the flora
And the fauna of your heart
At the dawning of some road worn day
I call you on a whim just to say
The morning birds are singing
But I could not do them justice
So I hung up and I fell back to sleep
But I'm in love with my mobility
Oh sometimes this life can be a drag
Like when I notice your nobility
And how my leaving
It only held you back
But I remember one occassion
When you were drinking
And you asked me to the coast
But I was hell bent on agony back then
And so I missed the boat
At the dawning of some road worn day
I call you on a whim just to say
My regrets become distractions
And I cannot do them justice
And I hung up and I fell back to sleep
When I was down in Starkville
I was hiding out inside some Comfort Inn
From a local gang of troubadours
When the homecoming queen
She come ridin in
(oooh)
Yeah but I slipped out of my room into the rain
(oooh)
And I went running for my health
(oooh)
I watched those headlights turn to moonlight
And finally I was running by myself
Now its the dawning of some road worn day
And I call you on a whim just to say
The morning birds are singing
Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. They started performing with the name Indigo Girls as students at Emory University, performing weekly at The Dugout, a bar in Emory Village.
They released a full-length record album entitled Strange Fire in 1987, and contracted with a major record company in 1988. After releasing nine albums with major record labels from 1987 through 2007, they formed the IG Recordings company in 2009 and resumed self-producing albums.
Outside of working on Indigo Girls–related projects, Ray has released solo albums and founded a non-profit recording label that promotes independent musicians. Saliers is an entrepreneur in the restaurant industry as well as a professional author; she also collaborates with her father, Don Saliers, in performing for special groups and causes. Saliers and Ray are both lesbians, though not a romantic couple, and are active in political and environmental causes. They are regarded as queer icons.
profound and beautiful song...
my father used to say in Graceland, "It's a long way to Tupelo..." my daddy was born in Mississippi...
he would have also starkly said that it is a long way to Starkville, too...
Yeah. I was passing by and they asked me, so what I could I do?
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches loves this song...
We had the usual competitions, the usual Saturday night beer blowout "banquet" — with killer MSU barbecue — and went to bed late. The next morning, our concrete canoe was missing. Someone, and it was strongly suggested "someone" was our hosts, had put all eight concrete canoes into the hotel swimming pool! Not an easy task; ours was the lightest by far at 180 pounds.
excellent...
Little harsh, you still out there?