The Long Road Ahead

The velvet sky above

Flies a girl I know's a dove

Hurricane killed my only love

On the long road behind

As spaceman ship did fall

Like a wayward cannon ball

Satellite did watch me crawl

Down a long road ahead

The Billboards above

My gas station girl in tights

The humming of wires, a duel in the fire line

I know love disappears

Like the cries of Paul Revere

But I know I'll hold you dear

Down the long road ahead

Hear the boom of industry

Hear the rumors in the streets

Some soft some indiscreet

On the long road ahead

Asked my boss he said fine

"Just make it on back to your shift on time"

I am a servant only to my mind

On the long road ahead

You wear a dress and I'll wear a gun my love

We'll follow the sounds of yapping hounds

That run through the high and golden fields

Where the dust cloud rolls and reels

Gently touches on the heels

Of the long road ahead

See the corporal in the crowd

See the warbird on a cloud

There's no defining what's allowed

On the long road ahead

My sheriff might have a terrible fit

Might find his body in a mining pit

Southern women take no shit

On the long road ahead

I heard in my mind the clutter

Of winding clocks

I saw a Bread line wind down

A thousand blocks

From the shore to Wounded Knee

From Dakota to Tennessee

Babe your memory is stalking me

Down the long road ahead