What Do I Do?

from A Way to Get Back Home by Craig Manning

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What do I do to forget?
Riding down the street in your '72 corvette
What do I do about the wall
That I hit in the middle of the night?
'Cause you're not there to call anymore
What do I do about those years?
That are all just in my memory
They're not coming back here
What do I do about the last words that I said to you?
They're not the ones I would have wanted
But I guess that they'll have to do

What do I do?
I just can't forget you
Oh no

Driving down the road now by myself
Ain't got no one sitting beside me
Just my music playing loud
Dashboard light shining at me
I've got 1,500 miles left to go before I see
Anyone I know
Or a face I'd recognize
A landmark to tell me this ain't a bad dream in disguise
Or a house in the middle of a field
Like the one you grew up in
Got demolished half a century ago
So I got nothing left
Of when I was a kid and you were there
When I was a kid and I was scared
For you to leave at the end of a visit
'Cause I didn't want to go back to being alone
But now I'm so damn alone
'Cause you're gone forever
And I can't get you back
And I can't call you on the phone
Or hear your voice
Aside from the messages you left
When I didn't pick up
And I'm sorry 'bout that now
'Cause I can't go back to knowing
What it was like just to see your name on the readout
Comforting, knowing you're near
And knowing that you knew
What you meant to me

What do I do?
Cause I just can't forget you

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from A Way to Get Back Home, released April 19, 2016

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