Livingston - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Change of clothes was all I carried

There were three of us to do the driving

The sky turned black outside of Laramie

And the rain poured down all over Wyoming

It took two long days and four full tanks of gas

To get to Livingston

In between the silences and the feeling grateful

I had so much time for remembering

Late nights around some ones table

Something deeper about those gatherings

More than once I’ve been far far away

And thinking bout Livingston

On the way back home I would stop awhile

Ease this truck onto the shoulder of the road

It’s a long straight line

That goes for miles and miles

It’s as lonely as a great plains Conoco

I came to say good bye, and to hug you

But I wasn’t brave enough to say that

So I said see you soon and I love you

And I think you understood me from way back

From the very first time we ever sang our songs

Late one night in Livingston

On the way back home I would stop awhile

Ease this truck onto the shoulder of the road

It’s a long straight line

That goes for miles and miles

It’s as empty as a great plains Conoco

I see you standing tall and kinda squinting

In a field outside of White Sulphur Springs

Don’t need a cowboy hat just a 33 Gibson

And a little more time to make it rain

As the sun turns red

And the sky treasure-gold

On the long way back to Livingston