Lyrics

[Brad Neely, from cartoon skit The Professor Brothers] In the future we'll all be laughing, ha! In the future we'll never die... [Tim Browne] The sun never sets, it just sinks slowly out of sight With the thump in your chest forever anchored to the light The prairie crack and dries, but you had wider eyes To head west The baggage of place, the frigid water in your veins And the stone in your face, carved to relief by interstates The colors in this town are buried in the ground So head west [Chorus] Lay it forever down to rest The curse that kept you from your dreaming Let the insistent die their deaths With no forwarding address Live forever heading west How the highway lines stretch their open arms around the lowland soil How the satellites dart across the sky and fall to miss the earth The bloom from the rose rots away on the roadside The signal to noise gets thrown off-balance over time Don't linger in the sound of the ghosts that stuck around Just head west [Chorus] Lay it forever down to rest The curse that kept you from your dreaming Let the insistent die their deaths With no forwarding address Live forever heading west I'll live forever headed west I'll live forever headed west