The Open Road

Shrunken head and Mardi Gras beads

Hanging on a rearview mirror that bleeds

Keepin' her eyes on the open road

No tellin' where that son-a bitch goes

Got her doors locked doin' 75

Don't care to be caught now, dead or alive

Seen enough to kill anyone's soul

Keepin' her eyes on the open road

Keepin' her eyes on the open road

The open road where the hopeless come

To see if hope still runs

One by one they bring their broke down loads

And leave 'em where the hobo dreams are stowed

Out on the open road

Out on the open road

Midnight fallin' like a bag of bones

Weighted down now the rest with stones

Bouncin' off a river the moon made steel

Cracking off the chrome of a steering wheel

Anything back there is burned and dead

Any love they made any words they said

Nothing to do now but drop it and roll

Into the lights of the open road

Into the lights of the open road

The open road where the hopeless come

To see if hope still runs

One by one they bring their broke down loads

And leave 'em where the hobo dreams are stowed

Out on the open road

Out on the open road

Shrunken head and Mardi Gras beads

Hanging on a rearview mirror on the beach

Keepin' their eyes on the open road

No tellin' where that son-a bitch goes

The open road where the hopeless come

To see if hope still runs

One by one they bring their broke down loads

And leave 'em where the hobo dreams are stowed

Out on the open road

Out on the open road