anna
Justin Townes-Earle Lyrics

Found her walking in the rain down on fatherland street.
He encountered this woman walking on Fatherland Street in the rain.

I call her name she stops and she smiles and she turns to me.
He called her name and she stopped walking and smiled at him, then turned to face him.

I say, Darling where you been?
He asked where she had been, calling her 'Darling'.

She says, you know, Daddy, I've been looking for you
She refers to him as 'Daddy', and admits that she had been searching for him.

She pops the rear door open and slides into my rear view.
She opened the back door of his car and got inside, where he could see her in the rearview mirror.

She puts her arms around me. And I put her into gear.
She hugged him, and he started driving the car.

I say, Where you want to go? She says, I dont know, I just want to disappear.
He asked where she wanted to go, but she didn't have a destination in mind, just a desire to escape.

'Cause I'm tired of walking down the same old streets every night.
She was tired of the routine of walking the same streets every night.

I'm tired of the same old faces, the same old sunrise.
She was tired of the monotonous routine of seeing the same people every day and the same sunrise every morning.

And I wonder how my Mama's doing in Memphis I wonder how my kids are up in Michigan.
She was concerned about the well-being of her mother, who lived in Memphis, as well as her children in Michigan.

So please, Baby, just drive. Carry me out into the night. Carry me out into the night.
She begged him to keep driving, to take her away and out into the night, far from their current location.

'Cause I need to know, that there is something more to this life. That there is something more to this moment, than this poor town can provide.
She was seeking something more from life and from that moment than what their current town could offer.

I feel the pressure. I feel it pushing down on me. I feel like I'm about to scream. I'm feeling low and downright mean.
She felt weighed down by external pressures and was struggling with negative emotions, feeling angry and low.

So please Baby just drive. Please, Baby, just drive
She repeated her plea for him to keep driving, to take her away from her life and its pressures.

I wish there was something that I could do.
He wished he could do something to help her, but perhaps felt powerless to change her situation.

But Baby you've gone to far to come back home.
He acknowledged that she had strayed too far from her previous life to ever fully return to it.

And all these years you've been waiting for the world to change, but unfortunately Anna, unfortunately Anna it's you, who needs to change.
He accuses her of waiting on the world to change when she is the one who needs to change internally in order to improve her situation.

Unfortunately Anna.
The title of the song, which looks at the unfortunate situation that Anna has found herself in.

She turns to me. She turns to me. She turns to me.
Repeating the previous line, describing Anna turning to face him, as if emphasizing the importance of this moment.