Route Nine Legends

Verse 1
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I saw Kevin in the old parking lot. He hit me up for change.
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He didn't recognize me, but I'd know him any place.
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I heard he did some time, and then I heard he got an apartment,
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But he didn't want to stop and chat, just continued on his way.

Interlude
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Verse 2
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I don't think it's true that people never really change.
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  Sometimes I wonder if it's all we ever do,
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But it's hard to make it happen on a schedule.
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It seems like we're just spinning our wheels, and then suddenly we move.

Interlude
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Verse 3
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I saw Jeff and Ruth at their house on a Tuesday afternoon.
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I knew them when we were young, and I'll know them when we're gray.
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  I liked when we were feral youth who joined the circus,
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But not compared to sitting with people I love after things turned out okay.

Interlude
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Verse 4
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I don't think it's true that people like us never change,
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But we don't always change quite in the ways we would have liked to.
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Sometimes we just respond to life a time or two or ten hundred,
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And give ‘em time to spread and those reactions will be tangled in the roots.

Interlude
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Verse 5
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Sometimes I think I've changed, and then I visit where I grew up.
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The old ways come alive, and I don't always like them now,
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But there's something that I love about a stop sign where I can't turn left
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On Sundays in the summer ‘cause that's when there is the flea market in town.

Interlude
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Verse 6
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I think that there are some things that we can't ever change,
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But I don't mean some great evil or cowardice inside.
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There could be a lot of that, but sweep it all away.
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The thing that's left is empty, and it's full, and we can't kill it if we try.

Outro
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