Song is about graffiti that used to hang above I-40 near Chapel Hill, NC that read “Marry me Jacqueline”. I always wondered if she didn’t say yes. So here’s the song. I had this title sitting in my notebook for close to 3 decades.
Tuning: Half step down
Lyrics:
I wrote my love for you on that overpass
I thought this way our love would always last
I still drive by it every now and then
The red paint is slowly fading away and it says
Marry me Jacqueline
Along with other words I didn’t write
At the time, this all seemed better in my head
Maybe I should left them unsaid
I tattooed your name over my heart
To prove to you we’d never be apart
But you’re gone now and I got old
Can’t make out the letters in the folds but it said
Marry me Jacqueline
Along with other words I couldn’t write
At the time, this all seemed better in my head
Maybe I should left them unsaid
I guess words are just words
Maybe my actions coulda spoke louder
Now those memories will just fade away
Like those words above the highway where it used to say
Marry me Jacqueline
Along with other words I couldn’t write
At the time, this all seemed better in my head
Maybe I should left them unsaid
Maybe I should left them unsaid
Maybe I should left them unsaid
Hazen James 