Leaving Omaha

On Stage at the Orpheum

waiting for a diploma

Lookin' 'round at my classmates,

ready to disown them.

My bags were packed, I was ready to leave,

for University-

I was moving up and out-

out of Omaha...

it didn't last



One night I was drinking alone,

so I drove out to Denver

to visit an old friend

who had settled down there.

I kept on driving all through the night

and threw up at dawn's early light-

sick on caffeine pills.

My friend, he escaped from Omaha...

I never will.



I had a lover once,

she was a nomad.

I would've followed her anywhere,

so we moved out to Portland.

She was selling baggage-

I bought all I could-

and that was all it took to make my escape.

Oh Omaha,

you never looked so good.



I am leaving.

I'm sailing away.

My time in Iowa was just a holiday.

I've gotta get back over that bridge

to the town were I live-

I guess that's where I'll stay.

Omaha