Baggage

© 2003 music by Tracy Jane Comer, lyrics by Tracy Jane Comer and Randy Green

[Key: sounding key is Eb modal, Tracy plays in key of D with guitar tuned DADGBD and capo at 1st fret]

Years ago you took my hand...two strangers in a stranger land
With you I escaped this world, and played my role as just your girl

Once or twice upon that time I thought that I saw love in your eyes
Your soft singing in my ears fed my passion, calmed my fears

Now it’s all turned bittersweet, I just can’t be your fantasy
You only love what you control, have to cast me in your mold
You hold so tight I cannot breathe, with paranoid jealousy
Now I think your love has too many strings attached

And it feels like baggage, in an old freight car
Sitting on a siding, never going far
Baggage just weighs me down
It’s all just baggage, a heavy load, ball and chain around my soul
And it has no place now

Was it just my desperate need to feel someone loving me
That drew me to your face, and lured me into your embrace

In the quiet, in the dark, urgent kisses, lovers’ sparks
Burning hot, burning fast, fire so hot it couldn’t last
You gave me a will to live, I gave you all I had to give
You used it up through all these years, ‘til all that’s left are bitter tears

Now it’s all just baggage, in an old freight car
Sitting on a siding, never going far
Baggage just slows me down
It’s all just baggage, a heavy load, it's wrapped itself around my soul
Well it has no place now

Well maybe there was once real love between us
Or maybe it’s all been just wasted time
Well maybe time can soften all these jagged edges
Or maybe I’ll just leave this heavy load behind

Years ago you took my hand...two strangers in a stranger land