On the Highway

Outer reaches come and go and I'm forever grateful

Come and tell me long and slow exactly what I'll wait for

Better times, yeah, better times, somehow I don't believe it

I built a house up long ago, just to up and leave it

There's a bright light in the cold dark night, so bloom where you're planted

But still I pray to the summer rain and every heart that's slanted

Borderlines and severed ties and the crickets in the meadow

Form a line and say goodbye to such a lucky fellow

Out on the highway

Like a portrait in the rain

Out on the highway

We'll never be the same again

Whittled like a mousetrap, queen of the sky, oh, tell me I'm forgiven

Simulated pilgrims, why, oh, why won't they take me with them?

Sell me something bright and shinier than I can imagine

Parting ways those summer days, so happy to have had them

Out on the highway

There's a storm out in the west

Out on the highway

Oh God, I'm such a mess once again

Out on the highway

It all comes crashing down

Out on the highway

Yeah, where would we be now? I don't know