2020 Pandemic Roadtrip (Who Cares?)

After your grandma passed away
We spent thirteen days
Driving across America
Despite the fear of corona
We drove from Texas to Arizona
And on to California
We drove up Highway One
Into Oregon
And then across Idaho
And while we roaming
Through Wyoming
I told you: "this is the place where I want to die"

But oh, my darling, my confidante:
Our time was scant but the memories
Still enchant my lifeless heart

I wanna run with you through rippling fields of wildflowers
I wanna see the sun sink down below the ocean of our sweetest final hours
But you said no
You forced me to go
And so I'm gone, gone, gone

We drove the plains of South Dakota
Then through lower Minnesota
And diagonal through Wisconsin
Michigan's upper peninsula
Head south and we're commencing the
Endmost day of our last trip together
One more drive through Ohio
Through the country that we know
But that I'll never see again
Home at last in West Virginia
To then begin then
Final ten days of our seven years together

But oh, my darling, my only friend
It's the end of our road
And I can feel my future fold
So I shall not speak
Of what we saw those two weeks
May the memories die with me

I wanna fly with you from sea to shining sea
I wanna cry with you in the holy forest's ancient sanctity
But you said no
You forced me to go
And so I'm gone, gone, gone

Who cares about the dreams I had
In the dim glow of the dawn
Who cares about a song
When everything's gone wrong
Now you gain it all
And I take the fall
You said "I don't wanna be married"
In a timid voice I'll never forget
So who cares about the love we shared
When the resentment that you kept hid
Closed the door on me

Now I've nowhere else to be
And there's nothing left for me to see
Oh, honey