Mayflower

Jane Eyre's Coat
Richard Bicknell, Scott Patton, Steve Boyes
© Beautiful Chair Music, ASCAP

I'm burning up this road tonight
Flying down to Bayonne tonight
With nothing left to stop it
And life's a box of thunderclouds
My love is strong and wrong, you know
He's waiting in Bayonne
I know my reason's unbelievable
But my rhyme is pure as gold
And outside it's getting cold

Chorus
Wrap me in Jane Eyre's coat
I've got a long way to go
I've got a long way to go
And it's only getting colder
Wrap me in black smoke rolling
From the grave of Jimmie Rodgers
Life is sad and I can't dodge her anymore

There's a bar that's down in Donegal
A hiding place
And I recall a broken heart was laughing
Drinking at the speed of light
And it sounded just like crying
I knew something there was dying
I was fall-down drunk and laughing
With my sad Lucinda Jones
And the light was cracking in

You're too intense
I can't escape
The hair that's blowing across your face
It's like a door slamming in the wind
Over and over and over and over and then
You open up
Why?

I'm burning up this road tonight
Flying high and I don't know why
But the radio's a backbone
Teach me how to pray
Little light of the darkening world
Blue soul man with a heart of coal
Blind me to the heart of me
Fly me on past Bayonne
I've got a long way to go
I've got a long long way to go