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One Lost Baby
Libby Wiebel, (c) 2002

He took the freeway coming home
Code red day grays into evening
Thankful for the drive alone
Neon indicates a warning
Find my baby, her mother said
And so they lit the sign
Praying that some lonesome trucker sees
Something suspicious on the road tonight

One lost baby won’t be coming home tonight
One lost baby on the open road
Salt tears on her pillow for all the losses hold
One lost baby traveling on her own
One lost baby traveling on her own

And he recalls the night he knew
That he would run from those who they would save him
Turn those blue jeans in for dress blues
Sign the line and sail away, then
Can’t forget his sisters’ crying
The day he marched away
But even so, he just can’t regret
The first decision he ever made

One lost baby won’t be coming home tonight
One lost baby on the open road
Salt tears on his pillow for all the losses hold
One lost baby traveling on his own
One lost baby traveling on his own

Haven’t talked to dad since Christmas
He thinks of this as he flips on the headlights
The paternal silent witness
To all the tremors, never once contrite
He can’t forgive, so he just stands back
He’s living in the aftershock
Driving roads that will not take him back
Heading for the only truth he’s got

One lost baby won’t be coming home tonight
One lost baby on the open road
Salt tears on his pillow for all the losses hold
One lost baby traveling on his own
One lost baby traveling on his own


[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-02-2002).]