Lyrics

The sunset in your rearview feels like
You could run forever
You’d love someone to hold you
But they can’t hold you together
That endless stash of careless years
You burned through it somehow
The marrow you sucked out of life
You sure could use it now, sure could use it now
And your heroes all died young
They were racing, chasing the sun, singing
A short time running and a long time gone

You said you were an outlaw
And you raged ‘til they believed you
It took you for a hell of a ride
But where’s it gonna leave you?
How’d you make it home last night?
Where’d you get those bruises?
Could it be that all your reasons
Are nothing but excuses?
And all the lovers you string along
Oh, you catch and release them with your song that goes
A short time running and a long time gone

The whispers of your conscience
That get drowned out when you’re bingeing
Come back around to haunt you
Whenever you turn off the engine
But you’ll tear through another town
Like everywhere you’ve been
If you can’t turn yourself around
Just turn yourself in
On the tangled road ‘tween here and home
What’ll you leave as you go along on your
Short time running and your long time gone