I Dream a Highway

Lyrics

[Refrain 1] Oh I dream a highway back to you, love A winding ribbon with a band of gold A silver vision come and rest my soul I dream a highway back to you [Verse 1] John, he's kicking out the footlights The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand new band Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand I dream a highway back to you [Verse 2] I think I'll move down into Memphis And thank the hatchet man who forked my tongue I lie and wait until the wagons come And dream a highway back to you [Verse 3] The getaway kicking up cinders An empty wagon full of rattling bones Moon in the mirror on a three-hour jones I dream a highway back to you [Refrain 2] Oh I dream a highway back to you, love A winding ribbon with a band of gold A silver vision come arrest my soul And I dream a highway back to you [Verse 4] Which lover are you, Jack of Diamonds? Now you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram I'll send a letter, don't know who I am I dream a highway back to you [Verse 5] I'm an indisguisable shade of twilight Any second now, I'm gonna turn myself on In the blue display of the cool cathode ray I dream a highway back to you [Verse 6] I wish you knew me, Jack of Diamonds Fire-riding, wheeling when I laid 'em up Drank whiskey with my water, sugar with my tea My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags I dream a highway back to you [Refrain 3] Oh I dream a highway back to you, love A winding ribbon with a band of gold A silver vision convalesced my soul I dream a highway back to you [Verse 7] Now give me some of what you're having I'll take you as a viper into my head A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed And I dream a highway back to you [Verse 8] Hang overhead from all directions Radiation from the porcelain light Blind and blistered by the morning white I dream a highway back to you [Verse 9] Sunday morning at the diner Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears I watched the waitress for a thousand years Saw a wheel inside a wheel, heard a call within a call And I dreamed a highway back to you [Refrain 4] Oh I dream a highway back to you, love A winding ribbon with a band of gold A silver vision convalesced my soul I dream a highway back to you [Verse 10] Step into the light, poor Lazarus Don't lie alone behind the window shade Let me see the mark death made And I dream a highway back to you I dream a highway back to you [Verse 11] What will sustain us through the winter? Where did last year's lessons go? Walk me out into the rain and snow I dream a highway back to you [Refrain 5] Oh I dream a highway back to you, love A winding ribbon with a band of gold A silver vision come and bless my soul I dream a highway back to you I dream a highway back to you [Refrain 6] Oh I dream a highway back to you, love A winding ribbon with a band of gold A silver vision come and bless my soul I dream a highway back to you