Closer to You
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Missouri's tied together like an old and ragged rug
Bits and pieces of necessity and love
You can sense the proud and working dirt poor
Clean and pressed like a Sunday shirt but edge worn
You'd think by now we'd be a little farther on
For all this tumbling we've been through
Leaving Missouri into southern Illinois
Feeling like I'm getting closer
Like I'm getting closer to you
Women look for answers
They learn to listen and sit still
Men think they've got to take some kind of stand
Yet we're drawn together like magnet to magnet
Spend years trying to explain again
You'd think by now we'd be a little farther on
For all this tumbling we've been through
I'm explaining still
I guess I always will be
Trying to get closer
Trying to get closer to you
There's a photo on the table of my family and me
Taken in some studio, 1963
The faces are familiar but I can't tell you why
Most families nod and then they sigh
When I get healed I'm gonna be a healer
That's just the nature of those things
We don't exist in any solid form
We're always moving and changing
You'd think by now we'd be a little farther on
For all this tumbling we've been through
I'm changing still
I guess I always will be
Trying to get closer
Trying to get closer to you