Minneapolis Lyrics - Lucinda Williams

I've been waiting for you to come back 

Since you left Minneapolis 

Snow covers the streetlamps and the windowsills 

The buildings and the brittle crooked trees 

Dead leaves of December 

Thin skinned and splintered 

Never gotten used to this bitter winter 

I've been wasted, angry and sad 

Since you left Minneapolis 

I wish my thoughts were pure like the driven snow 

Like the heavens and the spring's virgin buds 

But they strangle me with their sin 

Fill me up with poison 

Black clouds have covered up the sun again 

I can always trace it back 

To that night in Minneapolis 

Here on the seventh floor in a room I can't call mine 

Deadbolt on the door, do not disturb sign 

Shaking and trembling 

On the clean white linen 

Slivers of starlight across the ceiling 

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A dozen yellow roses 

All that's left in Minneapolis 

I wish I'd never seen your face or heard your voice 

You're a bad pain in my gut 

I want to spit you out 

Open up this wound again 

Let my blood flow red and thin 

Into the glistening 

Into the whiteness 

Into the melting snow of Minneapolis 

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