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The Overland Trail

from Light Sleepers by Miracle Cat

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Note: see Lillian Schlissel's "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" 9780805211764

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I was a girl, only fifteen when I was wed
and we set off on the next day out.

Mad chivarees turned to nothing but bloody flux
when we were out there, out there

Pushing on for the dream, for the sunset,
never coming back -- that's for sure.

Passing grave after grave after grave
on the overland trail.
Goodbye sweet life,

From now on
we're on the road
dead world
we press on

No turning back.

Crushed under wheel, wandered off and never came back
that's how we lost them, these lives

Why did we go? There is nothing here that I want.
Baby it's endless, this chain.

Pushing on for the dream, for the sunset,
never coming back -- that's for sure.

Passing grave after grave after grave
on the overland trail.
Goodbye sweet life,

From now on
we're on the road
dead world

Passing grave after grave after grave...

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from Light Sleepers, released June 20, 2022

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