Blink back, to let me know It was always you Falling for me Now there's always time Calling for me I'm the light blinking at the end of the road (It was always you) When the world gets too heavy Put it on my back

Baby, ev'rything is alright, uptight, clean out of sight Baby, ev'rything is all right, uptight, out of sight I'm a poor man's son, from across the railroad tracks, The only shirt I own is hangin' on my back, But I'm the envy of ev'ry single guy Since

I don't ever want to hate you So don't show me your bed The only roads are cul-de-sacs The only ends are dead It's not part of the plan So keep your charm where I can't see it And your hands where I can The first thing that she said Temptation, greets

And it's a long road out of Eden Moon shinin' down through the palms Shadows movin' on the sand Somebody whisperin' the twenty-third psalm Dusty rifle in his tremblin' hands Somebody tryin' just to stay alive He got promises to keep Over the ocean in

I was born to run Born to run There's an old man sittin' on a front porch now Talkin' 'bout how it used to be When I was young I was a hell of a man My father died when I was ten I hit the road to find a job Had to feed my family

Tryin' to the world on fire Turn the key and spark the wire Chasin' down a feelin', runnin' on desire Gone in a cloud of smoke The future was an open road Leavin' a trail of flames behind those tires Well that big red sun was sinkin' slow That horizon

Your lips around a Coca-Cola Like you and me together My hand on the wheel and your head on my shoulder Some things never go out of style Staring at your legs on the leather of my Road trip to New Orleans Or gettin' married in Vegas Sunsets down on the

I play the road, And every city's like the same three chords Been helping us along when the story's told Shaking off the miles and trying to make it home And the highway is our song, And the crowd is done and gone And the crowd has come and gone Every

Wait for it It takes and it takes and it takes I'm willing to wait for it Between the sinners

It's the first time, that I worried Of a bad dream, of a journey On a highway through the valley It's a long road through the night I can dance to anything you wanna sing It's a long road To get it right Stop banging away on my kaleidoscope Stop draining