Traveling Again

Words and music by Dar Williams

Have I got everything? Am I ready to go?

Is it going to be wild, is it gonna be the best time?

Or am I just a-saying so-o-o-o? Am I ready to go?

What do I hear when I say I hear the call of the road?

I think it started with driving, more speed, more deals, more

Sky, more wheels

More things to leave behind, now it`s all in a day for the

Modern mind

And I am traveling again

Calling this a ghost town, and where is the heartland?

And I`m afraid, oh, was there any good reason, that I had to go

When all I know is I can never come back.

Traveling I made a friend, he had a trouble in his head

And all he could say`s that he knew that the bottle

Drank the woman from his bed, from his bed

He said "I`m not gonna lose that way again."

But sober is just like driving, more joy, more dread, someone

Turns her head

And smiles and disappears

He`s gotta take it like it is, and it goes too fast

And he is just like me, caught in-between, no sage advisor

Does weary mean wiser?

And someday will I sing the mountains that carried me away away

From home and hometown boys like you?

Yeah, but what about us? Was it really that bad?

Oh it`s hard to believe I want a highway roadstop

More than all the times we had, on little dirt roads

What am I reaching for that`s better than a hand to hold?

It really was about driving, not fame, not wealth,

Not driving away from myself

It`s just myself drove away from me

And now I gotta get it back and it goes so fast, so I am traveling

Again

Sitting at the all-night, picking up a pen

And I`m afraid, oh, was there any good reason

That I had to go, when all I know is I am all alone again

And you are the ghost town, and I am the heartland

And I can say, oh, that`s a very good reason

That I had to go, but now all I know is I can never come back

And I will never go back.