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ON THE ROAD

It’s getting on towards evening
The dusk is falling late
The summer pushes back the veil of time
Passed through all the construction
Now it’s been clear on the interstate
All the way from Cleveland to the Indiana line

It was hazy in the morning
Baking hot in the afternoon
If the evening cools at all I’ll be surprised
It’s all so familiar
Or it feels like it’s too soon
Like the future’s waiting just over the rise

And the white line’s before me
Stretching out into the night
And I’m speeding with the windows down
Looking for the city lights
And I feel the engine turning
With all that came before
I swore that I was leaving
I’m not going back no more
I’m on my own now
I’m on the road

Running every red light on memory lane
From 95 out to the 101
Under a sky so starry that you can’t feel any pain
I pull over and just wait for the sun

Coming in to Flagstaff and the San Francisco Peaks
I wonder if I’ve ever really known someone
Tucumcari to Tallahassee
Telluride to Tennessee
Maybe I’ve always been a little on the run

And it’s all there before me
Everything I’ve ever seen
And as much as I keep looking
I still don’t know what it means
Where the mountains meet the prairie
Where the gravel meets the stream
Where the stars go on forever
And everything that's in between
I’m not alone now
I’m on the road

I dreamed a highway
That cuts across the years
From the first time I saw mountains
To the last time I was here
I dreamed a highway
Turning green and gold
I am wonder, I am wisdom
I am young and I am old

Now the white line’s before me
Stretching out into the night
And I’m speeding with the windows down
Looking for the city lights
And I feel the engine turning
With all that came before
But this is somewhere else now
I’m not going back no more
I’m not alone now
I’m on the road



Written by Josh Caress

(C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)

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from It's A Movie It's A Dream, released August 27, 2020
Written by Josh Caress

(C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)

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