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I Don't Wanna Love in Texas

from The Isolation Tapes Vol. III by Eric Peter Schwartz

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Written and recorded on July 2, 2020

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I DON'T WANNA LOVE IN TEXAS
(words and music by E.P. Schwartz)

I was eating a flat iron steak
on a westbound Amtrak train
I was going from Chicago to Dallas
then turn around and do it again

I was sitting with a stranger
eating steak and enjoying a beer
would've been more awkward not to talk to him
so I bent him an ear

He'd been out east visiting family
from his east Texas home
he'd moved there to build the wind farms
and he lived there all alone

I said "You don't have a wife or girlfriend"
as the train slid through the miles
he looked out the window and took a drink
and then I saw him smile

He said

I don't wanna love in Texas
I don't want anything tying me here
I don't wanns a beautiful woman
blowing Texas air in my ear

I don't wanna put no roots down
don't wanna plant no family tree
I don't want no Texas arms
holding on to me

(Solo)

He said,
please don't get me wrong, son
I like Ol' Tejas fine
the weather suits my constitution
and the sky is big and wide

In my heart it's not my home
I haven't found my place just yet
I haven't seen enough of this planet
to have turned up a table to set

so

I don't wanna love in Texas
I don't want anything tying me here
I don't wanna a beautiful woman
blowing Texas air in my ear

I don't wanna put no roots down
don't wanna plant no family tree
I don't want no Texas arms
holding on to me

(solo)

He got off in Texarkana
walked away from the train alone
I rolled on to Dallas
did my thing and went back home

and all these years later
his words echo in my ear
have I seen enough of this great, big world
to know I belong here

(Chorus)

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from The Isolation Tapes Vol. III, released July 20, 2020

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Eric Peter Schwartz Aurora, Illinois

Acoustic rock and some instrumental rock. Where heart and quirk collide.

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