I wrote this song at the close of my first year in Ohio. I had just quit a sales job I really wasn't making any money at, was looking for a new one, and at the same time was in the midst of a move out of a horrible floody basement apartment, to another less-horrible, less-floody basement apartment about six blocks away. I was feeling pretty stagnant.
pennsylvania
sit, stare at the windshield
dressed to impress
singing to stay sane and
drive like there's no tomorrow
want to go back east
want to spend tonight in pennsylvania with you
but today i am working
not making money
i've given my notice
and am looking for something that's new and yet the same
something with a long drive
singing to stay sane
and drive like there's no tomorrow
want to go back east
want to spend tonight in pennsylvania with you
but you have to study
you have to find a job
just like me, so
a trip is out of the question
and anyway it wouldn't be the same once we stopped
being on our way
'cause 80 is my in-between place
it's my getting somewhere
my letting the journey do the thinking for me
and life is just road and arby's fries
that you feed to me
as i drive
and that's where i was, all this time
in pennsylvania i was driving i was driving
conveniently letting it slip my mind there was
more to my life than interstate 80
and pulled up to my new apartment
made some new friends
took my work home with me and drove
like there was no tomorrow
never knowing why
it was the only time i let myself think
and now, now, you have to study
i have to find a job
but i'll come home tonight,
find pennsylvania with you
copyright rorie kelly 2003
