In the song By The Time I Get to Phoenix the protagonist - let’s call him Glen - does a lot of brooding over what the girl he left behind will be doing as he journeys further away from her. It always seemed pretty shitty of Glen to sneak away while she was sleeping. So this is the story of the girl waking up to find him gone. She’s thunderstruck and heads out on his trail … only to discover there may be more to his departure than meets the eye. 
Words and music Jonathan Brocklebank
Vocal Jennifer Young

Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck by your goodbye
I drove to Phoenix to have it out with you
They told me you’d just split, you trying to hide?
I missed you in Albuquerque too
Now i’m parked in the street in Oklahoma city
They’re rounding up a welcoming committee 
Oh man! The best laid plans, the best laid plans.

The cowardly way you left in the night
Knowing I’m a heavy sleeper lately
The note left on the door, how could you write
Those words while I was dreaming of you baby?
Now I’m sitting in the lobby of the Hyatt Place Hotel
Your mother’s here, US marshal as well
Oh man! The best laid plans, the best laid plans

Burning up the road, to your horizon
I’m picturing you hypothesising
About your distance from me. 
By the time I was rising

You say you always said this day was coming
And the telephone would ring right off the wall
But I don’t think you’re leaving, no you’re running
And the man here says you’re headed for a fall

Now you walk into the place with a briefcase on a chain
The look on your face when you see us could be framed
Oh man! The best laid plans, the best laid plans

Thunderstruck

Vocals: Jennifer Young
Lyrics / Music/ Additional Vocals: Jonathan Brocklebank
With special thanks to: The Grey Squirrels.

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I know you think I backslide and that
I've only got myself to blame
I know you think my excuses all
are mealy mouthed and lame
Get out of here, you said
You're no existentialist
why you can't even get your head
Round a silly 'don't mean nothing' kiss

We've barely even boarded the bus
strangers at the station terminus
There hardly even was an 'us'
Strangers at the station terminus

I hear you say why not stimulate your mind
You wanna let it go to seed?
I hear you say try to organise your time
And fresh air's what you need
Get out of here, I yell
You're no psychoanalyst
You can't even see yourself
Why would you cry over a 'don't mean nothing' kiss?

We've barely even boarded the bus
strangers at the station terminus
There hardly even was an 'us'
Strangers at the station terminus

Strangers

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