Dime store tries and shallow sighs
Dusty road that ends in sun
Another town to feed the eyes
Another bar to feed the numb
Roads to you are long but true
And the waiting’s all but gone
Night will shade all roads that stray
I’ll be holding back the dawn.
Angels of the wood and rail
Cut the dusty swirls with speed
Blur the sound to sagebrush brown
As that whistle it pleads concrete
Roads to you are long but true
And the waiting’s all but gone
Night will shade all roads that stray
I’ll be holding back the dawn.
Midnight blues are nothing new
Just a life that’s held in pawn
Don’t count the ways, don’t count the days
I’ll be there before the dawn
Burning all to find your way
Across the iron bridge through town
With the wind and with the sway
To your gray stray Irish hound
Roads to you are long but true
And the waiting's all but gone
Night will shade all roads that stray
I’ll be holding back the dawn.
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