MANY THOUGHTS

Have you ever been to Matamoros Banks, sad eyes?

Once I got in my pink Cadillac and drove there to rendezvous
With a woman named Leah.

When I got there she was playing the guitar and singing something
Called Terry’s song,
She was born in the U.S.A. and said I wanna be with you.

I told her, “My love will not let you down”

She said, “Let’s be friends skin to skin.” “That’s all I’m thinking about”

I told her, ” I’ve met too many women with hearts of stone”

Later we went to a place called the Lions Den where the bands are.

We listened to a song called the Seaside Bar Song,

When we left there, we were robbed, believe it or not; we were held up
without a gun.
The big payback was we didn’t have any cash, and there was a man who was
Quite the hitter,

He killed one of the men and said for his help there is a code of silence.

The promise was kept, and we went on our way to a motel called Loose Ends,

There were 57 channels and nothin’ on so we rented a movie called Part Man,
Part monkey.
Later that night I couldn’t sleep, and I thought about growin’ up, telling
An old friend, Janey, “don’t you lose heart”

I thought about a girl who said, “You can look, but you can’t touch”

A place my friends and I went to called Trouble River,

I remember partying with my brothers under the bridge and my father dying
From the fever.
Keith Garrett