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Witness

from Polk County Line by Ryan Sheeler

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Witness – Ryan Sheeler

Daddy I’m here lyin’ on my bed in a house too dark and too cold
To stop 7 months of searin’ pain that hasn’t grown old
I’ve talked to you ev’ry night since it happened I think you’re whispering
Maybe sins fuel the silence ‘cause you haven’t said a thing
(…so maybe I’ll tell it again)

VERSE 1
It was another trip down ’35 that day the end of June
He didn’t know at all that it’d end way too soon
She is there brushin’ her teeth; he had his guitar and a smile
With one and a thousand dreams ‘bout walkin’ down the aisle

CHORUS
It was just the two of us, sir -- Lovers brilliantly disguised
‘cause somehow we didn’t see the other pair of eyes
Daddy, I know you smiled when you saw us two kids in love with rain
Livin’ life like a movie that keeps playing itself again

VERSE 2
They loved and lost themselves together in the summer sun
Fought to the end and tempers flared when love should have won
Then she got scared and ran and three doors down cops arrived
Between the end of nowhere and the corner of Polk City Drive

INTERLUDE

VERSE 3
As he left her house that day in the back of the police car
He saw his love walk across the lawn with new scars inside her heart
Tears they came like fountains when he found out what’d he’d lose
Love became a ghost when the day turned into the local news

CHORUS

Daddy, you were the witness to a crime that day
But it wasn’t any knife or gun it was words they didn’t say…

c. 2011 Ryan Sheeler/Highway 30 Music (ASCAP)

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from Polk County Line, released July 12, 2011

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