Monday, March 23, 2015

Life as an undocumented migrant- "Better and Better" by Calexico

Is it better than staying back home?


Better and Better
John Convertino, Joey Burns

There's a letter she keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when its time to go

Shes heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
Shes walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone

Is it better? Is it better and better?
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?

I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road

She's in Kansas and Alabam, Idaho and the Carolines
Know I've seen her before cant you recognize those hands
Is it better? Is it better and better?

Is it better than staying back home?
Is it better? Is it better and better?
Is it better with nowhere else to go?

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