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Leaving my home on a hot Highway 50 night
Heading east through the Sierras to go bathe in some neon lights
I made some promises I can't keep,
The folly of youth: words are cheap
Now I'm yelling "I DON'T" every night when I'm lying in bed asleep

So I'm going to Reno
To bury my ring
My man, what does he know?
He doesn't do anything
As my boiling resentment
Turns to simmering rage
"Great Expectations" reads more like "Bleak House"
As time yellows the page

I dropped out of school so I could go and be a wife
He gave me his hand, then he covered up my eyes
The roof over my kitchen blocks out the stars
Even a convict gets some time in the yard
White picket fences ensnare the same as black iron bars

So I'm going to Reno
To bury my ring
My man, what does he know?
He doesn't do anything
As my boiling resentment
Turns to simmering rage
"Great Expectations" reads more like "Bleak House"
As time yellows the page

The Biggest Little City, well, it's lovely this time of year
The trees line the Truckee, the casinos fill you full of beer
Leaning over the bridge on Virginia Street
A tear hits the water, didn't think I'd weep
Drop that fucker in the Truckee watch the current drag it down

I done went to Reno
And I buried my ring
Beneath those cold Truckee waters
Can you hear my heart sing?
Now I got me a paper
Says my life belongs to me
Thought I'd lost my heart, I got it back
Down on Virginia Street

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from Remarkably Unmarketable, released March 10, 2017

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The Messy Jacksons Portland, Oregon

Do like like funny sad sound words? Then Messy Jacksons have good sound words for you. You like finger string picky fretty? Messy Jackson have other good sound words for you. Messy Jacksons is sometimes one, sometimes many, sometimes acoustic, sometimes electronic, always funny sad sound words from the Portland that stole its name from the other Portland. ... more

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