John Hiatt - The Open Road lyrics

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Shrunken head and Mardi gras beads

Hanging on a rear view mirror that bleeds

Keeping her eyes on the open road

No telling where that son a bitch goes

Got her doors locked doing seventy five

Don’t care to be caught now dead or alive

Seen enough to kill anyone’s soul

Keeping her eyes on the open road

Keeping her eyes on the open road

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The open road where the hopeless come

To see if hope still runs

One by one they bring their broke down loads

And leave them where the hobo dreams are stowed

Out on the open road

Out on the open road

Midnight falling like a bag of bones

Weighted down now the rest with stones

Bouncing off a river the moon made steel

Crashing off the chrome of a steering wheel

Anything back there is burned and dead

Any love they made any words they said

Nothing to do now but drop it and roll

Into the lights of the open road

Into the lights of the open road

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