Spring Street Lyrics - Many Great Companions - Dar Williams

I'm sorry that I left you with your questions all alone 

But I was too happy driving and too angry to drive home 

I was thinking about the easy courage of my distant friends 

They said, I could let this bridge wash out and never make amends 

Can I blow this small town make a big sound 

Like the star of a film noir postcard 

Can I just forget the frames I shared with you 

And I can't believe what they're saying 

They're saying I can change my mind 

Start over on Spring Street, I'm welcome anytime 

There are spring street storefront daisies floating on their neon stems 

There are new shirts on the clothes racks should I feel like one of them 

I can find a small apartment where a struggling artist died 

And pretend because I pay the rent I know that pain inside 

Yeah, let's watch the tour bus stop and tell us 

Here's the scene of a spring green life dream 

Take the best part write it in your caffeine diary 

And I can't believe what they're saying 

Theyre saying I can leave tonight 

Start over on Spring Street, I'm welcome anytime 

This year April had a blizzard just to show she did not care 

And the new dead leaves 

They made the trees look like children with gray hair 

But I'll push myself up through the dirt and shake my petals free 

I'm resolved to being born and so resigned to bravery 

Yeah the one who leaves this also grieves this 

Too much rain on a prairie flood plain 

Houses floating, love is like that we built on the river, yeah 

And that's to say, yeah I'm leaving 

But I don't have to go there 

I don't have to go to Spring Street 'cause it's spring everywhere