Highway 29
by Bruce Springsteen
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I slipped on her shoe, she was a perfect size seven
I said "There´s no smokin´ in the store ma´am."
She crossed her legs and then
We made some small talk that´s where it should have stopped
She slipped me her number, I put it in my pocket
My hand slipped up her skirt, everything slipped my mind
In that little roadhouse
On Highway 29
It was a small town bank it was a mess
Well I had a gun you know the rest
Money on the floorboards, shirt was covered in blood
And she was cryin´, her and me we headed south
On Highway 29
In a little desert motel the air was hot and clean
I slept the sleep of the dead, I didn´t dream
I woke in the morning, washed my face in the sink
We headed into the Sierra Madres ´cross the border line
The winter sun shot through the black trees
I told myself it was all something in her
But as we drove I knew it was something in me
Something that´d been comin´ for a long long time
And something that was here with me now
On Highway 29
The road was filled with broken glass and gasoline
She wasn´t sayin´ nothin´, it was just a dream
The wind come silent through the windshield
All I could see was snow, sky and pines
I closed my eyes and I was runnin´
I was runnin´ then I was flyin´
I said "There´s no smokin´ in the store ma´am."
She crossed her legs and then
We made some small talk that´s where it should have stopped
She slipped me her number, I put it in my pocket
My hand slipped up her skirt, everything slipped my mind
In that little roadhouse
On Highway 29
It was a small town bank it was a mess
Well I had a gun you know the rest
Money on the floorboards, shirt was covered in blood
And she was cryin´, her and me we headed south
On Highway 29
In a little desert motel the air was hot and clean
I slept the sleep of the dead, I didn´t dream
I woke in the morning, washed my face in the sink
We headed into the Sierra Madres ´cross the border line
The winter sun shot through the black trees
I told myself it was all something in her
But as we drove I knew it was something in me
Something that´d been comin´ for a long long time
And something that was here with me now
On Highway 29
The road was filled with broken glass and gasoline
She wasn´t sayin´ nothin´, it was just a dream
The wind come silent through the windshield
All I could see was snow, sky and pines
I closed my eyes and I was runnin´
I was runnin´ then I was flyin´