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Cargo City

from but so beautiful by Jonathan J. Bower

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Cargo City

He has a Jersey Jones
He visits each weekend
Hops in the Olds
And crosses Walt Whitman
He don’t dig on the Old City women
With their shiny boys and painted on pants

She’s a flushed waitress
A high-haired Twinkie
Her feet are flamed
Until he walks through the door
Jukebox plays their favorite hair-band ballads
He’s a fistful of quarters hitting the floor

And late nights down in Cargo City
Just off of South I-95
They watch the airplanes leaving and landing
Laying out on the hood of his car

She saves her tips for a shack in Wyoming
A woodstove under a blanket of stars
He’s easy to please when he’s not in the city
They spilled their dreams on the hood of his car

Late nights down in Cargo City
Just off South I-95
They watch the airplanes leaving and landing
Late last night that junker’s battery died

Soon they’ll flee the hazy summers
Clouds of paste the city hides behind
The hamster wheel, the cobweb of highways
Any day now, they’re gonna fly
They’re gonna fly

She’s his Jersey Jones
His high haired Twinkie
He’s a fistful of dollars
Won’t get far
Waving goodbye to the sideways city
Driving into the Western sun

The Western sun...


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from but so beautiful, released September 30, 2012

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Jonathan J. Bower Anchorage, Alaska

On the release of his 2012 EP, But So Beautiful, The Anchorage Press wrote, “[This is] masterful storytelling. These songs weave beautiful, forlorn tales in a matter of minutes, but with a defiant note of hope.” The songs on 2018's Light Years album play like postcards & snapshots written during an endless road trip around Alaska - or along every other dreamy, scenic stretch of highway anywhere... ... more

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