Triumph - In Town One Autumn Afternoon

from Songs of the Pumpkin Boy vol. VIII by Songs of the Pumpkin Boy

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lyrics

In town one autumn afternoon, we were drinking as we please,
Blowing from each bar to bar with the leaves upon the breeze.
Soon feeling I need be alone, I left my friends aside
And wandered off on down the road, the street lamps as my guide.

As brisk as howling winds I went and wondered as I walked,
What all there was beyond the road, where shadows mutely stalked.
So leaving town, out past the homes with windows glowing bright,
I krept so lightly on my feet and sank into the night.

Down a wooded trail I roamed as rain began to fall
And soak my clothes. Drenched to the bone, my pace slowed to a crawl.
So sick I felt; the food I ate, my stomach would not dredge
And threw up all my apple pie at roadside's muddy edge.

I looked out, deep into the night like I had been set free
But, spooked by my own shadow cut in moonlight on a tree,
From there fled back on down the road 'neath the breaking of the dawn
To find my friends out eating breakfast, wond'ring where I'd gone.