Leaving Omaha

Onstage at the Orpheum

Waiting for a diploma

Looking out at my classmates

Ready to disown them

My bags were packed

I was ready to leave

For university

I was moving up and out

Out of Omaha

Oh, it didn't last



One night I was drinking alone

So I drove out to Denver

To visit an old friend

Who had settled down there

I kept on driving all through the night

And threw up in dawn's early light

Sick on caffeine pills

My friend, he escaped from Omaha

Oh, I never will



Oh, I had a lover once

She was a nomad

Would have followed her anywhere

So we moved out to Portland

She was selling baggage

I bought all I could

And that was all it took

To make my escape

Oh, Omaha, oh, you never looked so good



I am leaving

I'm sailing away

My time in Iowa

Was just a holiday

I've got to get back over that bridge

To the town where I live

I guess that's where I'll stay

Oh, Omaha, oh, Omaha