Emmylou Harris - The Road lyrics

rate me

I can still remember every song you played

Long ago when we were younger and we'd rock the night away

How could I see your future then where you would not grow old

With such a fire in our belly such a hunger in our souls.

I guess I probably loved you and those words rolled off your tongue

Seemed that we were trailing under some unlucky sun

And though I couldn't save you and no one was to blame

But the road we shared together once will never be the same

Hey

Gone away

Won't be coming round again

Hey

With a song I pray

And on the wings of a song I'll fly away.

I wandered in the wilderness for a while I was so lost

To everything there is a season and every blessing has it's cost

So I took what you left me and put it to some use

Went looking for an answer with those three cords and the truth

I come down from the mountain I come walking in your shoes

I was taken for a gambler when I had no more to loose

But you put me on that path. How could I refuse?

And I spend my whole life out here working on the blues

Hey...

So I carried on. You can't be haunted by the past.

People come. People go. And nothing ever lasts.

But I still think about you and wonder where you are

Can you see me from some place up there among the stars

But down here under heaven there never was a chart

To guide our way across this crooked highway of the heart

And if it's only all about the journey in the end

On that road I'm glad I came to know my old friend.

Hey

Gone away

Won't be coming round again

Hey

With a song I pray

And on the wings of a song I'll fly away.