Roadsick Blues

from The Soot Will Bring Us Back Again by The American West

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lyrics

Well I’m back out on the road again
Just another half baked plan
A promise in the rearview of my mind
And I’m calling you, my long lost friend
Another smoke trail in the wind
Half-made dreams lead to half held sighs

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Two shots of bourbon, a pint of booze
A cigarette for the memories that I’ll someday lose
Ain’t seen you for a month, or is it two
I’m a thousand miles from nowhere, so I sing these roadsick blues

You told me once that we would make it if we tried
But you quit playing guitar and you’re halfway alive
You’ve been working in a kitchen, struggling to pay rent
But its hard to feed your soul, when you work the breakfast shift

Chorus

The highway is for gamblers but I’m just a rolling stone
All that separates us is where we’ve been and where we’re goin’
The radio sings Hank Williams hear the lonesome whipper-will cry
It just screams into to the night sky as the diesels lumber by.

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from The Soot Will Bring Us Back Again, released March 17, 2017

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