Hannibal, MO-Dolorean

[ti:Hannibal, MO] [ar:Dolorean] [al:Not Exotic] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.28]Hannibal, MO - Dolorean [00:01.02]Written by：Alex Trevor James [00:02.03] [00:16.38]I had a true love from hannibal [00:20.33] [00:25.19]Where the Mississippi turns flat and wide [00:29.46] [00:33.72]We'd lay out on the sandbars [00:36.04] [00:37.53]And fall [00:37.89] [00:42.05]And fall asleep to the barges and the fireflies [00:46.90] [00:53.46]And I killed my true love from hannibal [00:57.39] [01:01.68]She was nineteen and I was twenty two [01:06.14] [01:09.94]Summer was ending and she was leaving soon [01:14.17] [01:18.60]To study writing on the east coast [01:22.60] [01:29.90]And I worked in my father's shop [01:34.03] [01:38.10]Fixing air conditioners and heating pumps [01:42.60] [01:46.81]Going to college never made much sense to me [01:51.92] [01:54.87]I wanted to keep my true love close to me [02:00.06] [02:06.03]The summers are hot in hannibal [02:10.06] [02:14.22]The summers there are unbearable [02:17.85] [02:23.20]So we'd steal down to the water's edge [02:26.92] [02:31.38]And cool off in the river's ebb [02:35.38] [02:42.62]One night we decided what we would do [02:46.73] [02:50.59]Swim to the middle til our strength gave out [02:54.89] [02:59.48]Where the current was strong and deep [03:03.02] [03:07.10]Together we'd be pulled down to sleep [03:11.11] [03:18.21]So we swam til our bodies were weak [03:22.61] [03:26.53]I watched my true love get washed out to sea [03:30.79] [03:35.26]I felt a terrible grip from beneath [03:39.01] [03:43.14]The river took her but it didn't take me [03:47.46] [04:26.66]In St. Louis there's a prison cell [04:30.33] [04:34.30]Be twelve more years til I get out [04:38.32] [04:42.20]When I do her father says he'll shoot me down [04:46.20] [04:50.18]If I don't do it myself [04:53.91] [05:01.40]Most days I just try and sleep [05:05.51] [05:09.26]I dream of hannibal when it was in between [05:13.10] [05:17.04]It's not quite day and it's not yet night [05:21.16] [05:25.36]We fall asleep to the barges and the fireflies