Story behind the song
A guy is haunted all his life by an early encounter with a Cajun beauty, but discovers you can never go back.
Lyrics
Nowhere Bound
[v1]
New Orleans was beckoning
with her Voodoo charms.
As I drove towards her,
down ol’ highway 61.
I saw a neon sign 10 miles outside of town,
in faded colors it read “welcome to Nowhere Bound”.
[ch1]
I stopped that car in it’s tracks,
drew a careful breath before I stepped inside,
I was nowhere bound, no one to care if I came back,
I was nowhere bound.
[v2]
One-eyed Jack he smiled at me,
“boy do you know where you’re at?”
I was dripping nervousness,
a greenhorn for the trap.
Then Satan’s daughter, with her potions and her touch,
she took my soul, she took my 300 bucks.
[ch2]
But I saw the promised land,
when that Cajun beauty took me by the hand,
I was nowhere bound, no one to care if I came back,
I was nowhere bound.
[br]
A circle spell is cast,
I can feel the dead hand of the past.
I’m bound to circle ‘round and ‘round forever.
I’m nowhere bound.
[v3]
Three wives later I still think of her,
though the memory has greyed.
I’m on my way to New Orleans,
to find the part of me that stayed.
10 miles outside of town, the rain is pouring down.
That faded neon sign is nowhere to be found.
[ch3]
No you can never go back,
those memories are shadows of a scene that fades to black,
and I’m nowhere bound,
no one to care about me,
I’m nowhere bound,
ah, but now at least I’m free,
Yes I’m nowhere bound,
I’m nowhere bound,
Oh lord I’m nowhere bound.
Kimberly Kime / John Smyth