Oh Heart, Oh Highway

In a crumbling empire that starts at the pavement,
and the tall grey spires. And the big blue sky.
There's a faint fading signal, though I've tried to save it,
from your heart to mine. Cross these million miles.
Now I don't know how it happened, and I guess I never will.
How we draw these lines. But I think of you still sometimes (and)
Me, I like to drive. While everyone is sleeping.
I like to feel you breathing. And feel your life in mine.

Cause somehow my city got haunted.
And somehow the living got hard.
As all of the things that I'd hoped for.
One by one became things that I'd lost.

So I'll rejoin the wallflowers, and the misfits, and love's wronged.
I'll quit writing you letters and go back to writing songs.
I guess it just took all these years to get tired of running strong.
Cause somehow in this moving came the peace for which I've longed.
And some nights, under bright lights, a sweet and open heart,
will find your arms. Twenty four hours. (and I don't know)
If I was smitten, with you or with your city.
But that good-bye, sure did feel like a pity.

Cause somehow my city got haunted.
And somehow the living got hard.
As all of the things that I'd hoped for.
One by one became things that I'd lost.

Oh heart. Oh highway. I would have missed all this if you had not denied me.
Oh heart. Oh highway. I would have missed all this if you had seen things my way.
Oh heart. Oh highway. Oh heart. Oh highway.

In a crumbling empire that starts at the pavement.
There's a weak fading signal, though I have tried to save it Darlin'
I have held you to me traveling all these miles across
And I have held your hand while loving you became something I'd lost
Oh heart... Oh highway..