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Written: ????
Released: 2005 on
'Mr Jeays'
Your eyes are the colour of mud and gasoline
Rainbows swimming in skies of brown
Your hash brown hair falls lazy on your shoulders
As you untie it and let it tumble down
Then you say
You say you're leaving, you're leaving Perry County
And this gas station diner and all the rest beside
You're going to fly away, far away from Perry County
From the seasons and the silence and the clouds that stitch the skies
But there's a smile in the eyes of Perry County
There's nothing you can say he hasn't heard before
He's watched the young girls dream
He's watched the old men sighing
And he's watched them watch together
As the young men go to war
There's blood in the earth, in the earth of Perry County
The Yankee and the Rebel, the grey and the blue
Sometimes you'd swear, you'd swear the grass grows red there
And the trees are made of silver and the wind laughs just like you
When you say
You say you're leaving, you're leaving Perry County
And this gas station diner and all the rest beside
You're going to fly away, far away from Perry County
From the seasons and the silence and the clouds that stitch the skies