Song Description
FOURTH PLACE WINNER, POP/ROCK CATEGORY, 2006 Songwriters of Wisconsin International Songwriting Contest.
| Song Length |
4:41 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Mad, Furious |
Subject |
Dysfunctional Relations, Breaking Up |
| Similar Artists |
Melissa Etheridge |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Years ago you took my hand
Two strangers in a stranger land
With you I escaped this world
And played my role as just your girl
Once or twice upon that time
I thought I saw love in your eyes
Your soft singing in my ears
Fed my passion, calmed my fears
Now it?s all turned bittersweet, I just can?t be your fantasy
You only love what you control, have to cast me in your mold
You hold so tight I cannot breathe, with paranoid jealousy
Now I think your love has too many strings attached
And it feels like baggage, in an old freight car
Sitting on a siding, never going far
Baggage just weighs me down
It?s all just baggage, a heavy load
Ball and chain around my soul
And it has no place now
Was it just my desperate need
To feel someone loving me
That drew me to your face
Lured me into your embrace
In the quiet, in the dark, urgent kisses, lovers? sparks
Burning hot, burning fast, fire so hot it couldn?t last
You gave me a will to live, I gave you all I had to give
You used it up through all these years,
?Til all that?s left are bitter tears
Now it?s all just baggage, in an old freight car
Sitting on a siding, never going far
Baggage just slows me down
It?s all just baggage, a heavy load
Wrapped itself around my soul
Well it has no place now
Maybe there was once real love between us
Or maybe it?s all been just wasted time
Well maybe time can soften all these jagged edges
Or maybe I?ll just leave this heavy load behind
Years ago you took my hand
Two strangers in a stranger land