The Maple Street Project: Music & Lyrics
Murphy
(The Maple Street Project)
2006-11
E. Luskin (Awkingsongs, BMI)
Based on a true story! If you can figure out the references, let us know.
A town that’s all a-tangle in endless Kudzu vines
If you want to disappear there’s room for you here
In this corner of the Carolines
A trailer on the outskirts, a shack within the pines
I came to find myself, you came to lose yourself
In the solitude of Murphy
A radio tower shouts the news upon the hour
Crickets are the nighttime silence when thoughts are all one owns
We’re heard but not heard, seen but not seen
I came to find myself, you came to lose yourself
In the solitude of Murphy
Could you see that blinking tower
In your days and hiding hours
I lived alone but not like you
The fields and gorge a poster view
And passers by a rarer few
In the solitude of Murphy