La Dispute - SCENES FROM HIGHWAYS 1981-2009 lyrics

I let the car drift some
Eye your uncomfortable pose in profile
The postures of long drives
That endless cycling of your numb
And near sleeping parts
And you lean much harder than you
Need when the road curves
Swerve through traffic and the
Cracks in the ground
Every gesture you require of a
Drive like this night
When you fight now you just head out of town
I let the wheel go over center lines
Inside a place without time
A loop through history
Eye you in periphery now prone
In the passenger seat
It’s a mystery the ways you can sleep

I want to leave here for where nobody goes
I want to breathe in the air
Of all those sprawling ancient
Spaces on earth
You said we’re so scared of alone
And I knew what you meant
You want to go where it glows all
Those places where your watch doesn’t work

You were riding those nights
On the highway always
Hiding out inside a songwriter’s dream there
Like a scene from a song
Born to Run, or maybe Running on Empty
Ones where they would leave
Certain nights when you’d fight
You couldn’t stick around
So you’d head out of town
Just hit the highway and drive
Certain nights when you’d thought it was fine
But it shook you when the baby would cry
Why did you always turn around in the end?
To hear the shattering of glass
On the door again?
So loud the baby couldn’t sleep anymore?
What didn’t you find that
You were looking for?
Your mother called a hardware
Set you up an interview an answer to an ad
The bosses’ daughter still remembers dinner
Where her father said
He wouldn’t stick his neck
Out for trouble again but they did then
And those days you’d wake up
And just decide you wouldn’t show
He’d show up at your door
Nights you’d skip town he’d follow you out
Pretty soon you started falling
For their daughter and she fell for you
Drive roll every window down
Let the desert enter heavy and primitive in
Drift till rumble strips sound
Time moves so slow but I know
That you meant what you said
You want to go where it’s frozen
All those places where the
Highways don’t reach

You want to go where it glows
Somewhere that time is irrelevant
You want to go where it glows
Somewhere the spaces are infinite

You want to go where it glows
Somewhere you don’t feel the hours pass by
You identified the flowers on the road
I rolled the windows down and
Shut off the radio
Did you ever think you’d end up here
All those late nights you were driving alone?
You were riding to hide
Or you were looking for a brand new life
Did you ever think you’d find one back home?
Did you even think you’d get out alive?
Could you imagine then the love you now know?
I think history’s a system of roads
And there’s nowhere it doesn’t go
I pulled over to the side and felt no time
Off the highway with the landscape aglow
Still not sure what we were trying to find
I only know we went home