Fern Mackenzie - 2020 Pandemic Roadtrip (Who Cares?)

After your grandma passed away
We spent thirteen days driving across America
Despite the fear of corona we drove
From Texas to Arizona and on to California
We drove up Highway One
Into Oregon and then across Idaho
And while we were roaming
Through Wyoming I told you "this is the place where I want to die"

But oh my darling, my confidante
Our time was scant
But the memories still enchant (My lifeless heart)

I want to run with you
Through rippling fields of wildflowers
I wanna see the sun slip down
Below the ocean of our sweetest final hours
But you said no
You forced me to go
And so I'm gone

We drove the plains of South Dakota
Then through lower Minnesota and diagonal through Wisconsin
Michigan's upper peninsula
Head south and we're commencing the endmost day of our last trip together
One more drive into Ohio
Through the country that we know but I'll never see again
Home at last in West Virginia
To then begin the ten final days of our seven years together

But oh my darling, my only friend
It's the end of our road
And I can feel my future fold
So I shall not speak
Of what we saw those two weeks
May the memories die with me

I want to fly with you
From sea to shining sea
I want to cry with you
In the holy forest's ancient sanctity
But you said no
You forced me to go
And so I'm gone

Who cares about the dreams I had
In the dim glow of the dawn?
Who cares about a song
When everything's gone wrong?
Now you gain it all
And I take the fall
You said "I don't want to be married"
In a timid voice I'll never forget
So who cares about the love we shared
When the resentment you kept hid
Closed the door on me

Now I've got nowhere else to be
And there's nothing left for me to see
Oh, honey

Written by:
Fernando Mackenzie

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