I let the car drift some Eye your uncomfortable pose in profile The postures of long drives That endless cycling of your numb and near sleeping parts And you lean much harder than you need when the road curves Swerve through traffic and the cracks in the ground Every gesture you require of a drive like this night When you fight now you just head out of town I let the wheel go over center lines Inside a place without time, a loop through history Eye you in periphery now prone in the passenger seat Its a mystery the ways you can sleep I want to leave here for where nobody goes I want to breathe in the air of all those sprawling ancient spaces on earth You said were so scared of alone and I knew what you meant You want to go where it glows all those places where your watch doesnt work You were riding those nights on the highway always hiding out inside a songwriters dream there Like a scene from a song, Born to Run, or maybe Running on Empty Ones where they would leave Certain nights when youd fight you couldnt stick around So youd head out of town Just hit the highway and drive Certain nights when youd fight it was fine But it shook you when the baby would cry Why did you always turn around in the end? To hear the shattering of glass on the door again? So loud the baby couldnt sleep anymore? What didnt you find that you were looking for? Your mother called a hardware Set you up an interview An answer to an ad The bosses daughter still remembers dinner where her father said He wouldnt stick his neck out for trouble again But they did then And those days youd wake up and just decide you wouldnt show Hed show up at your door Nights youd skip town Hed follow you out Pretty soon you started falling for their daughter And she fell for you Drive roll every window down Let the desert enter heavy and primitive in Drift till rumble strips sound Time moves so slow but I know that you meant what you said You want to go where its frozen All those places where the highways dont reach You want to go where it glows Somewhere that time is irrelevant You want to go where it glows Somewhere the spaces are infinite You want to go where it glows Somewhere you dont feel the hours pass by You identified the flowers on the road I rolled the windows down and shut off the radio Did you ever think youd end up here All those late nights you spent driving alone? You were riding to hide or you were looking for a brand new life Did you ever think youd find one back home? Did you even think youd get out alive? Could you imagine then the love you now know? I think historys a system of roads and theres nowhere it doesnt go I pulled over to the side and felt no time Off the highway with the landscape aglow Still not sure what we were trying to find I only know we went home
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