Twilight Hotel - Mahogany Veneer lyrics

I met you in the forest where the borealis shined And every fish in that old lake could tell that you were mine We sang there to each other And the falls they lent an ear My old life fell away like mahogany veneer When we got to New York City All our dreams were waiting there Pennies in our pockets Sunshine in our hair We stood out on the ferry The wind was at our cheek We scanned our new horizons and the vastness made us weep And we fell in love with Memphis With its muddy bleeding heart Down on Union Street they're taking rock n roll apart The sunset on the delta The whistle of the train And all the boarded buildings made me long for Winnipeg And when we got to New Orleans we found a city on its knees Homes hung with shadows And streets lined with weeds We went down to the old quarter and not a sole was there The mighty Mississippi silent as a prayer Driving across Saskatchewan the road straight as a knife We learned that Terry Burg had taken his own life Did his hand betray his conscience Was he lost or was he found We hauled 16 hours back just to put him in the ground On the night that we left Nashville Johnny's house was burning down Crossed into Kentucky in the dark without a sound Radio static The moon was out of sight I watched you sleep beside me Turned off the dashboard light