Time and circumstance never meant that much to me

If I could I always took the chance in the name of living free

But it all came back around like a lovesick hangover on a sunny day

Like you know you're just sorrow bound but you go and meet the day anyway

Always the one to leave, always the one who'd really want to stay

Trying so hard to believe, trying to keep the hounds at bay

You kept me driving those backroads longer than I ever thought I would until you

Put the fear of the great unknown back in me 'til I almost loved you

And now the tar's rising like mercury

Off the asphalt glowing in the summer heat

On the open road underneath empty skies

And everywhere you turn the river's run dry

I only wanted to see the stars

On a cool, cloudless night

I'm twenty miles from the nearest town

Clear out of sight

And blame's a losing game, and the last resort of a hard heart

In time it's all the same: in the end you finish where you start

Rust on a junkyard chevy, dust on a desert plain

And the load, it's getting heavy...and I can hear the roll of the slow train

And now the tar's rising like mercury

Off the asphalt glowing in the summer heat

On the open road underneath empty skies

And everywhere you turn the river's run dry

I only wanted to see the stars

On a cool, cloudless night

I'm twenty miles from the nearest town

Clear out of sight