Lyrics for Leaving Omaha as interpreted by Mopnugget

Leaving Omaha Lyrics
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

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BeccaBee
06-14-2004

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I'm pretty sure the lyrics are

"She was selling baggage, I bought all I could..."

Tim Kasher...he has enough baggage already without hers :o)

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Mopnugget
06-20-2004

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fixed, thanks

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promisexkept
01-30-2005

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seriously,being the saddle creek whore i am,i want to go to nebraska and go to conor and tims old stomping grounds.

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promisexkept
02-23-2005

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wow, that sounds both very pathetic and stalker like. I didnt mean it.I'm not quite that awful.

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shieldyoureyes
03-20-2005

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I wonder what high school Kasher graduated from, seeing as how I live in Omaha and the Orpheum is quite a classy and unusual venue for a graduation. It's a rather old but wonderfully preserved theater, it's beautiful. Most area high schools have graduation in the convention center.

Oh yeah - there are no Omaha stomping grounds :) Saddle Creek is a long street with a Target, gas stations and a couple fast food joints. Nothing special.

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beatrix_kiddo2
04-12-2005

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shieldyoureyes - i'm pretty sure kasher went to creighton prep, same as conor oberst.

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Mellow_Harsher
05-28-2006

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This song is about how one simply cannot escape the pull of one's hometown, no matter how much one wants to get away. Tim tries to escape through college, a friend, and a lover, and each time he finds himself, defeated, drawn back to Omaha.

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orbitwhiteo1
08-09-2006

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I live in Omaha, and it is nothing glamorous. Yes, they both went to Creighton Prep, my brother goes there. I go to the all girls Catholic school down the street. In fact I live about a block away from Saddle Creek Road. I also fear I will never get out of Omaha.

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obsessmuch
06-12-2009

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There is just something about omaha that makes it really hard to leave. i don't think i'm ever going to be able to, except for the time i spend in college.

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