Abandoned Shoes, Pine Street, Manhattan
Rubber Duck, Smith-9th Street Station along the F/G Subway Lines, Brooklyn
All I Left Behind
All I left behind
should come as no surprise
To me since I fell
through the black hole of your eye
Only little things
inconsequential I could say
Of all I left behind with you
along the lost highway
Silver earrings in Wichita
Beaded moccasins in Tonopah
But I had you so
I just let them go
The flannel shirt I wore
to keep me from the cold
When we drove from Boston
all the way to Buffalo
The leather boots I bought
so many miles ago
I took them off to follow you
into the Ohio
Never did my armor feel so thin
Silk was all I had between me and your skin
Like Waterloo
I lost that too
And the gold bracelet with my father’s name inscribed
On the back by the one who loved him all her life
The way I too
could have loved you
The Spanish shawl I put
across the broken shade
Of the lamp that lit the room
That last night near Cour d'Alene
Only little things
inconsequential I could say
Of all I left behind with you
along the lost highway
Of all I left behind
music and lyrics written by Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Kate McGarrigle, Anna McGarrigle
Almo Music Corp/ Poodlebone Music/
Garden Court Music (ASCAP)
