Blue Highway

I set off in a flatbed truck

Down the ladder, down on my luck

Got a map of the lower 48

Took the first ramp headed down the interstate

I had a wife, but she wouldn't have me

Left a job, a livin', and a family

There was nothin' to keep me; no reason to stay

I went lookin' for nothin' down the blue highway

And we watched our lives go racin' by

The years rolled on in a haze

We took time for this, time for that

But we never took time babe

For the blue highways, highways

For the blue highway, highway

Why did I ever have any doubts

I didn't need to figure it out

But out on the road when the nights get black

I whistle a tune hey, I'm never goin' back

And we watch our lives go racin' by

The years rolled on in a haze

We took time for this, time for that

Let's take a little time baby

For the blue highways, highways

We spent wasted days believin'

We see something past ourselves

Yeah we lock our doors behind us

'Cause we know this life so well

We never make the deadlines

That other people set

We speculate about justice

While we're grabbin' what we can get

Get out on the highway

The blue highway

There's people in the world

You never want to meet

Out in the alleys, down in the streets

There's people hurtin' people

People full of hate

People fishin' blindly usin' money for bait

We watch our lives go racin' by

The years rolled on in a haze

We took time for this, time for that

But we never took time baby

For the blue highways, highways

For the blue highways, highways

Let's take a little time, for the blue highways

The blue, the blue highways