La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009 lyrics

rate me

I let the car drift some

Eye you uncomfortable pose in the profile

The postures of long drives

That endless cycling of your numb and near sleeping parts

And you lean much harder

Than you need when the road curves

Swerve through traffic and the cracks in the ground

Every gesture your require of a drive like this night

When you fight now you just head out of town

I let the wheel go over center lines

Inside a place without time

A loop through history

Eye you in periphery

Now prone in the passenger seat

It’s a mistery the ways you can sleep

I want to leave here for where nobody goes

I want to breathe in the air

Of all those sprawling ancient spaces on Earth

You said we’re so scared of alone

And I knew what you meant

You want to go where it glows

All those places where your watch doesn’t work

You were riding those nights on the highway

Always hiding out inside a songwriter’s dream there

Like a scene from a song ”Born to Run”,or maybe ”Running on Empty”

Once where they would leave

Certain nights when you’d fight

You couldn’t stick around

So you’d head out of town

Just hit the highway and drive

Certain nights when you’d fight it was fine

But it shook you when the baby would cry

Why did you always turn around in the end?

To hear the shattering of glass on the door again?

So loud the baby couldn’t sleep anymore?

What didn’t you find that you were looking for?

Your mother called a hardware

Set you up an interview

An answer to an ad

The boss’s daughter still remembers dinner where her father said

He wouldn’t stick his neck out for trouble again

But they did then

And those days you’d wake up

And just decide you wouldn’t show

He’d show up at your door

And just decide you wouldn’t show

He’d show up at your door

Nights you’d skip town

He’d follow you out

Pretty soon you started falling for their daughter and she fell for you

Drive,roll every window down

Let the desert enter heavy and primitive in

Drift’till rumble strips sound

Time moves so slow

But I know that you meant what you said

You want to go where it’s frozen

All those places where the highways don’t reach

You wanna go where it glows

Somwhere that time is irrelevant

You wanna go where it glows

Somewhere the spaces are infinite

You wanna go where it glows

Somewhere you don’t feel the hours pass by

You identified the flowers on the road

I rolled the windows down

And shut off the radio

Did you ever think you’d end up here?

All those nights you were dirving alone?

You were riding to hide

Or you were looking for a brand new life

Did you ever think you’d find one back home?

Did you even think you’d get out alive?

Could you imagine then the love you now know?

I think history’s a system of roads

And there’s nowhere it doesn’t go

I pulled over to the side and felt no time

Off the highway with the lanscape ...

Still not sure what we were trying to find

I only know we went home