"Nowhere To Go Except Gone" studio version

Songs by Frank Hogans

Long Hard Road To You
(studio version)
Awarded Finalist in Country/Bluegrass
Awarded Finalist in
Folk Rock/Americana/Roots Rock

Nowhere To Go Except Gone
(studio version)
Awarded Silver in Country/Bluegrass

"Nowhere To Go Except Gone"

(studio version)
words and music by Frank Hogans

North of Vicksburg, south of goodbye

High beam love flashing up from behind

Cotton row runaways stepping right along side

This is gonna be one hell of a ride

The Memphis rain was all blue and gray

Made my regrets and my getaway

I've been laying up walls to stay ahead of this flood

But my paddle wheel heart's still churning up mud.

Nowhere to go except gone.

(Close your eyes, slip away)

You're not the first to get my destiny wrong

(Hear what the river has to say)

Our neon night was just a boarded-up dawn

(Turn this dream around)

Down that river road again

Nowhere to go except gone

Ten thousand snows, in a hundred white lines

Strung out for miles across the delta sky

All heading south, Texas in their eyes

Wish I could coax these broken wings to fly

So if I'm on my way to someone else

Why do I leave these little pieces of myself,

At every turn, every place I've been,

to find my way back to you again?

Nowhere to go except gone

(Close your eyes, slip away)

I get ahead, but then I stay too long

(Hear what the river has to say)

I'm that falling star you once wished upon

(Turn your dream around)

Down that river road again

Nowhere to go except gone

If you're reading this, then it's begun

This fog gets burned off by the sun

On this incendiary day

I light the fuse and run away