Lyrics

all day on blacktop roads, ballcap for want of shade
sleeping out nights alone, curled up in forest glades
so lonesome sometimes I could almost quit
wonder where my lady is, to talk to as we walk through it
and I can hear heavenly music, comin out amplified
cumulous clouds and canola fields stretch out gold and wide
and that strange dislocation, waiting on rides and in laundromats
gets easier to take when you remember that
old curious feeling you used to get
staring off down highways, and watching vapor trails from jets
and looking up a moonlit creek I was feeling like my younger self
itching to go and yearning to be understood by someone else
I took love so seriously, even though I was just a kid
nobody set out to hurt me, it just wound up that a few girls did
but keep in mind you came in alone, and you’ll go out alone
you can’t hold people to your plans, or measure yourself by their standards
it gets easier and less to say, leaving lovers and friends
the same thing that fills your heart today may break it in the end
so lonesome sometimes, feeling beat-up and looking like hell
wonder where my lady is, wonder if she’d mind my smell now

so lonesome sometimes, that old feeling echoes back a sweet reminder
wonder where my lady is, wonder if I’ll ever find her
so long, so long, so long solo…