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The Tuesday Nobody Wrote Down

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[Intro]
Nobody else wrote it down

[Verse 1]
Streetlights coming on outside this window,
I'm riding home and the year falls away.
I'm eight years old on a vinyl back seat,
the trip got canceled on an ordinary Tuesday.
The air conditioner quit near the county line,
so we rolled the windows down and drove anyway.

[Chorus]
Two hours to nowhere with the wind in the car,
my mother's hand out surfing, my brother half asleep.
Wax paper sandwiches, a map refolded wrong,
it's the best day of my life and nobody else wrote it down.

[Verse 2]
I brought it up at the reunion this spring,
paper plates and folding chairs in my aunt's front yard.
My mother laughed and said she couldn't place it,
and my brother swore he never slept that hard.
So I let it go before the dishes came out.
I wasn't angry. It just wasn't theirs to hold.

[Chorus 2]
Two hours to nowhere with the wind in the car,
the seat stuck to my legs and the radio low.
Wax paper sandwiches, a map refolded wrong,
it's the best day of my life and nobody else wrote it down.

[Bridge]
Maybe a day only happens once, in one pair of eyes.
Maybe that's not a loss, that's just the way it goes.
I don't need a witness to know that it was good.
I was there. I was there. And I know.

[Final Chorus]
Two hours to nowhere with the wind in the car,
my mother's hand out surfing, the whole road going gold.
Wax paper sandwiches, a map refolded wrong,
so I'll keep it, I'll keep it in the back seat of my head.
It's the best day of my life and nobody else wrote it down.

[Outro]
Riding home, riding home,
nobody else wrote it down.

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