Green Tree Hill

green tree hill is a section of the parkway in pittsburgh. if you go there during rush hour, bring book and something to eat with you.

thirty years of going nowhere
thirty years of telling lies
a life of living in the past
just hangs me out to dry

if i could make it all better
if i could erase the past
i'd probably live my life the same way
cause that's just who i am

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and i don't know
how it was that i got here
or how to do anything else

and i think that i am
gonna be stuck here
as long as i stay myself

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i'm on the parkway
i'm getting nowhere
cause i can't make it past greentree hill
sometimes i think that
life would be easier
if i didn't have to feel

i'm stuck in own world
i'm growing bitter
i guess that's how it will be
now i'm just sitting here
wanting to drive away
but i can't seem to get any speed

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i just heard back
from an old friend
about how things are going well
i told him i was glad to hear it
and hoped he couldn't tell

that i had done very little
at least that's how it feels to me
maybe i just need new glasses
but that's the life i lead

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and i'm wondering how
it came down to this
and where it all went wrong

maybe someday
it'll get easier
for now i'm sitting around

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i'm on the parkway
i'm getting nowhere
cause i can't make it past greentree hill
sometimes i think that
life would be easier
if i didn't have to feel

i'm stuck in own world
i'm growing bitter
i guess that's how it will be
now i'm just sitting here
wanting to drive away
but i can't seem to get any speed