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I'm standing in the middle of the road
I got places to go, yeah
Well it takes a good man to know a good woman
I'm not such a good man as a woman needs a-loving
So I'm a-flying up the Freeway, ain't nothing in sight
You know it takes a lot of loving to keep me driving all night
Just want to drive and drive and drive,
Going nowhere and I don't care.
Can't wait 'til I get there.
"Oh Virginia down the highway to 64
East way to Newport News
There you'll find an open door in
Oh Virginia all my friends are there to greet me
Just a smile down 64 along the open road."
Classy little white and red
Turns everybody's head.
My baby meets me at the five and dime,
She's always right on time.
We roll all our cares away.
It's a ragtop day.
I'm all alone, this lonesome road I roam
I've got no love to call my very own ...
I've got a hard road to travel and a rough rough way to go
But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed
My mind's made up, I'll never stop
My faith will see, see me through.
Music blasting from an SUV
On a bright and sunny day
Rolling down the Interstate
In the good ol' USA ...
Freeways flickering, cell phones chiming a tune
We're riding to Utopia;
road map says we'll be arriving soon ...
Weaving down the American highway
Through the litter and the wreckage, and the cultural junk
Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda
Now we're driving dazed and drunk.
A thumb goes up, a car goes by
Won't somebody stop to help a guy
Hitchin' a ride, hitchin' a ride
I've been away too long from my baby's side.
They're stoppin' me out on the freeway
'n they ask of me what I do and where I'm bound ...
The off ramp backed up miles today
And the carbon fumes
Were drifting towards the sky
The sky began to cry
And the thunder booms
When you slammed through my life
Like a screen door in a hurricane wind,
All I could think was how to find you again.
But Route 80 was snowed under,
And the roads to the canyon were closed.
For our safety, I suppose.
If you don't know where you're going,
Any road will take you there
Way back, back in school,
I was sad; kids were cruel
But now, I really know ...
To move on ... just let it go! Yeah!
Oh, Highway 101 -
Flyaway to the sun.
You know my life...
Has just begun, oh yeah,
On Highway 101!
Just can't sit still,
In this small town,
There's nothin more here, I hit the ceiling,
So in the morning I'll hit the highway.
Ooohh, I just can't stay.
Me an' Earl was haulin' chickens
On a flatbed outta Wiggins ...
And I says "Earl this hill can spill us
You better slow down or you gonna kill us.
Just make one mistake and it's the pearly gates
For them eighty five crates
Of USDA approved cluckers.
You wanna hit second?"
Wolf Crick Pass way up on the great divide
Truckin' on down, the other side
Look down - look down
That lonesome road
Before you travel on
True love - true love
What have I done
That you should treat me so.
I'm going to Colorado
to unload my head
I'm going to New York City
and that's in New York, friends ...
Start at the northwest corner
Go down through California
beeline you might drive three days
and three nights to the tip of Florida
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Tell 'em we're survivors.
Life is a highway.
Highway 405 will take you
From the Boom Boom Room
To Interstate 5 which goes right to
The San Diego Zoo.
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage ...
Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland
In the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his "sea of flowers" began
Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again.
This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain ...
How then am I so different from the first men through this way?
Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away.
To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men
To find there but the road back home again.
Take heart, cheat the dark
Get driving with the lark
As cities sleep
Steal a march before the sun.
It's all philosophy
On an open motorway
Stick around the house the rest of your life.
You're eighteen you can do what you like.
You'll be the queen of my highway,
my motorcycle mama.
We'll see the world through my Harley.
I'm a hard drivin' man
Doing the best I can,
I'm a Harley ridin' man.
Honey, would you take a chance
On a hard drivin' man.
She knows just what I like
The angel on my bike ...
It's 45 miles on that highway
And there's only, only one heart on that highway
Angel double prayer
Well, I'm rollin' along the highway
Livin' the life I'm used to.
I thought about you all the way from
Little Rock to Houston
And now I can't seem to get you off my mind
But you're tied to somebody else
I think about you all the time
And I just can't help myself.
Well, there ain't no picket fences
But there ain't no grass to mow.
If you don't like your neighbor,
There's another one down the road.
From the kitchen window
We've seen most every State
It may not be for everyone,
But for us there ain't no place like
Home sweet highway.
Thirty days on the road, baby I'll be home soon.
Now it's been a month or more here since I've seen you ...
For my whole life I've heard the highway calling
Spent most of it between two white lines
Now I don't want to wind up alone
So I'm bound to change my ramblin' mind.
Let my headlights shine through the pouring rain
You see my red tail lights, I'm gone again
Maybe some day the road I ride
Won't seem so long to me inside
And the path I take will be a rocky one
But it's mine, and mine alone.
My heart is like a white line ...
The time has come for leaving ...
The same old repetition, feeling up and down again
Sorry is a highway that never seems to end
About three miles from border town, the California-Nevada line ...
Stood in front of me, a vision to see, with her thumb aimed to the sky
Yes she jumped inside and spoke her name, Cecelia Dee from Abilene
I caught her eye, as I was hypnotized, like a fire fed with kerosene
Just one look, that was all it took, I was trying to put up a good fight but I was hooked
Down the road a little ways she said to me, and then we'll see how far we go.
We both share the trials of the road
Cursing all the miles and the nights we spend alone
But then I smile
You've been waiting for me all the while.
I'm sitting on a hilltop looking at a traffic jam
Laughin' at the people as they drive as fast as they can
But five miles an hour won't get them very far
They'll still be sitting in their car
