The Cowboy Junkiesare a Canadian alt-country/ alternative rockband, formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family. The group formed in Toronto in 1985. The band's name was simply a random choice as they approached their first ever gig, but it has come to perfectly represent their sound. (Some sources may credit Townes Van Zandt's song "Cowboy Junkies Lament" as the source of the band's name, but that song was written especially for Cowboy Junkies several years after they coined the name.) The Trinity Sessionis perhaps their best known record, recorded live in a single day on a single microphone in a church in Toronto. This album also included a unique cover version of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane".
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Escape Is So Simple Lyrics
Cowboy Junkies
The way you kissed me this morning
It told me that you soon would be going
You didnt even look in my eyes
When you said goodbye
And last night in your sleep you broke all the promises
That I knew you would never keep
Now Im reading the letter which you placed on the dresser
And youre five hundred miles down the road
Escape is so simple
In a world where sunsets can be raced
But distance only looses the knife
The pattern of its scar
Can always be traced
Yeah, I remember when we said forever
Was the craziest word that we knew
But I think that I like it much better than I do goodbye
And I could sit here all evening and think of the reasons
Why you are not by my side
Instead Ill go to the kitchen, find a strong chair to sit in
And drink myself far, far away
Escape is so simple
In a world where sunsets can be raced
But distance only looses the knife
The pattern of its scar
Can always be traced