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By The Time I Get To Phoenix Lyrics
By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be risin'.
She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door.
She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin',
'cause I've left that girl so many time before.
By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin'.
She'll prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call.
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin',
off the wall, that's all.
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin',
She'll turn softly and call my name out low.
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her,
'tho' time and time I've tried to tell her so.
she just didn't know I would really go.
She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door.
She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin',
'cause I've left that girl so many time before.
She'll prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call.
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin',
off the wall, that's all.
She'll turn softly and call my name out low.
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her,
'tho' time and time I've tried to tell her so.
she just didn't know I would really go.
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A broken relationship. Jimmy Webb once said a listener told him that the song's lyrics were logistically impossible. The driving distances are too far between Phoenix - Alberquerque - Oklahoma to do it all in a day !
Just close your eyes and let it happen. The mood --the pure hubris of the singer. Webb is so underrated and missed from the music scene of the oughts.