Released: November 18, 2016
Songwriter: Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills (R.E.M.) Michael Stipe
Producer: John Keane
[Verse 1]
Went to take a ride out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
Made believe can't you see
It's coming up a storm and I'm gone
Change the medium
Widen the road
Lessen a load
[Verse 1]
Went to take a ride out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
I need to leave
Can't you see?
It's coming up a storm and I'm gone
Change the median
Widen the road
Lessen the load for you
[Chorus]
When I'm there in Texarkana
Where's that county line?
Another county line
[Verse 2]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
Riding out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
Water in Neches River flooded
Washed the bridge away
Had to take a detour over the overpass
[Chorus]
When I'm there in Texarkana
Where's that county line?
Another county line
[Refrain]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
[Refrain]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
[Verse 3]
Went to take a ride out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
And I got stuck
Behind an 18 wheel truck
Flatbed
Two lanes carrying pine
[Chorus]
When I'm there in Texarkana
Where's that county line?
Another county line
[Refrain]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
[Outro]
You are just a memory
You're in my memory
And I can't see
Ten minutes
Ten hours
Ten days
Ten years
Ten miles
Ten-thousand miles away
Why can't you see?
I need to leave
And you're not here
You're not here
Fixing to see so much clearer
Went to take a ride out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
Made believe can't you see
It's coming up a storm and I'm gone
Change the medium
Widen the road
Lessen a load
[Verse 1]
Went to take a ride out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
I need to leave
Can't you see?
It's coming up a storm and I'm gone
Change the median
Widen the road
Lessen the load for you
[Chorus]
When I'm there in Texarkana
Where's that county line?
Another county line
[Verse 2]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
Riding out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
Water in Neches River flooded
Washed the bridge away
Had to take a detour over the overpass
[Chorus]
When I'm there in Texarkana
Where's that county line?
Another county line
[Refrain]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
[Refrain]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
[Verse 3]
Went to take a ride out in the county
Trying to forget about me and you
And I got stuck
Behind an 18 wheel truck
Flatbed
Two lanes carrying pine
[Chorus]
When I'm there in Texarkana
Where's that county line?
Another county line
[Refrain]
I can only see what's in front of me
And you're not here
[Outro]
You are just a memory
You're in my memory
And I can't see
Ten minutes
Ten hours
Ten days
Ten years
Ten miles
Ten-thousand miles away
Why can't you see?
I need to leave
And you're not here
You're not here
Fixing to see so much clearer
more tracks from the album
Out of Time [25th Anniversary Edition]
- Radio Song
- Me On Keyboard (Me In Honey Demo)
- Texarkana (Demo)
- Blackbirds (Half a World Away Demo)
- Slow Sad Rocker (Endgame Demo)
- Untitled Demo 2
- Texarkana 1 (Demo)
- Losing My Religion 1 (Demo)
- Endgame
- Me in Honey
- Country Feedback
- Texarkana
- Half a World Away
- Belong
- Near Wild Heaven
- Low
- Shiny Happy People
- Losing My Religion
- 40 Sec. (40 Second Song Demo)
From the album
R.E.M. popular songs
- Losing My Religion
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Man on the Moon
- Everybody Hurts
- Orange Crush
- The One I Love
- Nightswimming
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Shiny Happy People
- What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- Drive
- Imitation of Life
- Stand
- Find the River
- Radio Free Europe
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
- E-Bow the Letter
- Country Feedback
- The Great Beyond
- Let Me In
- Fall on Me
- Try Not to Breathe
- So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- Ignoreland