Santa Rosa in the Snow

happy new year's, santa rosa, here I am

I was brought in by the weather and the cold

I was heading towards the west to find the sand

I guess i'll have to settle for the snow

I am just a stranger to this town

I'm lonely and i'm restless and i'm stuck

I wish I knew a way to get back down

and I wish I had a shovel in this truck

the state police won't let me on the street

I told them my story but they don't care

there's an old dog just lying at the feet

of a girl who once wore flowers in her hair

and my heart lies fifty miles ahead

underneath a bridge just out of sight

where she sits beneath the covers of her bed

where she waits for me to meet her in the night

and this old town is named after a rose

that looms along a hillside in cold ground

but my heart has been broken and it's closed

like the freeway that would take me out of town

and just because I ain't got no regrets

that don't mean I didn't get it wrong

and my love was like a homemade summer dress

I am just a lonely winter song

and I dust off the snowflakes from the hood

and I talk to an old friend on the phone

she says 'I think that the calm could do you good

you have been driving so long'

so happy new year's, babe, I guess this is goodbye

and I hope you that find someone you can hold

and if you hear that midnight whistle cry

please think of me in santa rosa in the snow