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So Sioux City

from Looking for a Perfect Trip by Rod Johnson

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The Missouri flows beside the town
The river water's flat and brown
With the dust that blows in off the prairie
You can see the trucks from up on the ridge
Heading west across the bridge
Loaded with all that they can carry
She pictures all those little towns
What if no one ever came around
Waiting forever for their next delivery
Out there all alone, she thinks,
Wouldn't that be shitty?
My god, she laughs, I’m so Sioux City

Lewis and Clark spent a winter here
Telling lies and shooting deer
Before they headed out into the great unknown
She often thinks she might move on
Maybe Des Moines or Madison
But she knows she'd miss her family and her home
It's a risky thing, why take a chance
And put her life in someone's hands
Who didn't understand the way she saw the world?
And she would miss those prairie skies
That would be a pity
Ah, she thinks, I'm so Sioux City

Somewhere out there in the oil towns around Williston
She had a friend
He finally lost his willingness to wait for her to make a move
No more time to spend

She hung a picture in her hall
Somewhere in France, if she recalls,
Of flowers growing in a wooden window box
When winter seems like it'll never be done
She sits imagining the sun
It keeps her going till the equinox
One time he asked her why she stayed
Didn't she want to see that place
Why was she satisfied with looking at a picture?
She just shrugged and said, I think it's pretty
Man, he said, that's so Sioux City
Oh man, he said, that's so Sioux City

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from Looking for a Perfect Trip, released September 1, 2021

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