Like the pine trees lining the winding road I got a name, I got a name Like the singing bird and the croaking toad I got a name, I got a name And I carry it with me like my daddy did But I'm living the dream that he kept hid
Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by
Like the north wind whistling down the sky I've got a song, I've got a song Like the whippoorwill and the baby's cry I've got a song, I've got a song And I carry it with me and I sing it loud If it gets me nowhere, I go there proud
Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by
And I'm gonna go there free
Like the fool I am and I'll always be I've got a dream, I've got a dream They can change their minds but they can't change me I've got a dream, I've got a dream Well, I know I can share it if you want me to If you're going my way, I'll go with you
Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by
If I could save time in a bottle the first thing that I'd like to do is to save every day 'til eternity passes away just to spend them with you if I could make days last forever if words could make wishes come true I'd save every day like a treasure and then again I would spend them with you But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want once you find them
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with
If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true the box would be empty except for the memories of how they were answered by you But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want once you find them
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with
Like the pine trees lining the winding road I got a name, I got a name Like the singing bird and the croaking toad I got a name, I got a name And I carry it with me like my daddy did But I'm living the dream that he kept hid
Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by
Like the north wind whistling down the sky I've got a song, I've got a song Like the whippoorwill and the baby's cry I've got a song, I've got a song And I carry it with me and I sing it loud If it gets me nowhere, I go there proud
Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by
And I'm gonna go there free
Like the fool I am and I'll always be I've got a dream, I've got a dream They can change their minds but they can't change me I've got a dream, I've got a dream Well, I know I can share it if you want me to If you're going my way, I'll go with you
Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won't pass me by
If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day till eternity passes away Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever If words could make wishes come true I'd save every day like a treasure and then Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do, once you find them I've looked around enough to know That you're the one I want to go through time with
If I had a box just for wishes And dreams that had never come true The box would be empty, except for the memory of how They were answered by you
But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do, once you find them I've looked around enough to know That you're the one I want to go through time with
Operator, well could you help me place this call See, the number on the match book is old and faded She's living in L.A With my best old ex-friend Ray A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated
But isn't that the way they say it goes Well let's forget all that And give me the number if you can find it So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show I've overcome the blow I've learned to take it well I only wish my words Could just convince myself That it just wasn't real But that's not the way it feels
Operator, well could you help me place this call 'Cause I can't read the number that you just gave me There's something in my eyes You know it happens every time I think about the love that I thought would save me
But isn't that the way they say it goes Well let's forget all that And give me the number if you can find it So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show I've overcome the blow I've learned to take it well I only wish my words Could just convince myself That it just wasn't real But that's not the way it feels No, no, no, no That's not the way it feels
Operator, well let's forget about this call There's no one there I really wanted to talk to Thank you for your time Ah, you've been so much more then kind You can keep the dime
But isn't that the way they say it goes Well let's forget all that And give me the number if you can find it So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show I've overcome the blow I've learned to take it well I only wish my words Could just convince myself That it just wasn't real But that's not the way it feels
Sometimes I think about our good old high school days You would always kid about my adolescent ways Oh, Mary, Mary, good to see you too Haven't seen to many of the old crew The time just flew, and how are you?
Strange we should meet here Seeing off our friends
It's hard to draw the line between Beginnings and ends Oh, Mary, Mary, must you go so soon? We must be a sight to see Salon and Saloon I'll look you up soon Maybe sing you a tune
Lazy days in mid-July Country Sunday mornin's Dusty haze on summer highways Sweet magnolia callin'
But now and then I find myself Thinkin' of the days That (when) we were walking in The Alabama rain
Drive-in movies, Friday nights Drinkin' beer and laughin' Somehow things were always right I just don't know what happened
We were only kids But then I've never heard it said That kids can't fall in love And feel the same I can still remember the first time I told you "I love you"
On a dusty mid-July Country summer's evenin's Weepin' willows sang its lullaby And shared our secret
Don't you know I had a dream last night That you were here with me Lyin' by my side so soft and warm And we talked a while And shared a smile And then we shared the dawn But when I woke up Oh, my dream it was gone
Don't you know I had a dream last night And you were here with me Lyin' by my side so soft and warm And you said you'd thought it over You said you were coming home But when I woke up Oh, my dream it was gone
I'm not the same Can you blame me Is it hard to understand I can't forget You can't change me I am not that kind of man
Don't you know I had a dream last night And ev'rything was still And you were by my side so soft and warm And I dreamed that we were lovers In the lemon scented rain But when I woke up Oh, I found that again, I had been Dreamin', dreamin' again I had been dreamin,' dreamin' again
Snowy nights and Christmas lights, Icy windowpanes, Make me wish that we could be Together again And the windy winter avenues Just don't seem the same, And the Christmas carols sound like blues, But the choir is not to blame
But it doesn't have to be that way What we had should never have ended I'll be dropping by today We could easily get it together tonight It's only right
Crowded stores, the corner Santa Claus, Tinseled afternoons, And the sidewalk bands play their songs Slightly out of tune Down the windy winter avenues There walks a lonely man, And if I told you who he is, Well I think you'd understand
But it doesn't have to be that way What we had should never have ended I'll be dropping by today We could easily get it together tonight It's only right
No, it doesn't have to be that way What we had should never have ended I'll be dropping by today We could easily get it together tonight It's only right
I guess that it was bound to happen Was just a matter of time Now I've come to my decision And its a-one of the painful kind 'Cause now it seems that you wanted a martyr Just a regular guy wouldn't do But baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you
You really gotta hand it to ya 'Cause girl you really tried But for ev'ry time that we spent laughin' There were two times that I cried And you were tryin' to make me your martyr And that's the one thing I just couldn't do 'Cause baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you
'Cause tables are meant for turnin' And people are bound to change And bridges are meant for burnin' When the people and mem'ries they join aren't the same
Still I hope that you can find another Who can take what I could not He'll have to be a super guy Or maybe a super god 'Cause I never was much of a martyr before And I ain't 'bout to start nothin' new And baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you
'Cause tables are meant for turnin' And people are bound to change And bridges are meant for burnin' When the people and mem'ries they join aren't the same
But I hope that you can find another Who can take what I could not He'll have to be a super guy Or maybe a super god 'Cause I never was much of a martyr before And I ain't 'bout to start nothin' new And baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you
Well it started out just like a dream And like a dream I knew that what we had, Would have to end Cuz I was lookin' for a, Lifetime lover and, You were lookin' for a friend Someone to be there After all your night time lovers had gone, The way they came Someone who knew the way And helped to play your daytime game It's not the same
Well I started out pretending that I'd, Come to mean enough to you to make, You want to change Then I came to realize that There was just too much of you you'd have, To rearrange And I couldn't bear to wait around For all your night time lovers to go, The way they came And it came to hurt too much for me To have to play your daytime games No one's to blame
Well it started out just like a dream And like a dream I knew that what we had, Would have to end Cuz I was lookin' for a, Lifetime lover and, You were lookin' for a friend I was lookin' for a, Lifetime lover and, You were lookin' for a friend
Once we were lovers But some how things have changed Now we're just lonely people tryin' to forget eachother's names Now we're just lonely people tryin' to forget eachother's names
What came between us? Maybe we were just too young to know But now and then I feel the same And sometimes at night I think I hear you callin' my name Mmm hmm hmm these dreams They keep me goin' these days
Once we were lovers But that was long ago We lived together then And now we do not even say hello We lived together then And now we do not even say hello
What came between us? Maybe we were just too young to know But now and then I feel the same And sometimes at night I think I hear you callin' my name Mmm hmm hmm these dreams They keep me goin' these days
Seems like such a long time ago, I was walking on a lonely road. Getting tired of dreaming alone, like all the lonely people I had known.
Seems like such a long time ago, there was no one who would share my song. I was just a boy far from home, but I became a man when you came along.
We spent the whole night talking. You said you'd like to see the sun rise. But in the gold of morning, was nothing that I had not seen in your eyes.
I was so afraid to touch you, thought you were too young, you know. So I just watched you sleeping. Then you woke and said to me, The night is cold, it frightens me. I could sleep so easy next to you.
Wasn't very long ago, you said that you would like to share my role. Then you started singing my song. Spent so many nights a-waiting, Lets not spend a moments wasting time, because we have very far to go. I will go if you will take me, I have never had a lover. I am young but I am so alone.
We spent the whole night talking. But in the gold of morning...
Photographs and memories Christmas cards you sent to me All that I have are these to remember you Memories that come at night Take me to another time Back to a happier day, when I called you mine
But we sure had a good time When we started way back when Morning walks and bedroom talks Oh, how I loved you then
Summer skies and lullabies Nights we couldn't say goodbye And of all of the things that we knew Not a dream survived
Photographs and memories All the love you gave to me Somehow it just can't be true It's all I've left of you
But we sure had a good time When we started way back when Morning walks and bedroom talks Oh, how I loved you then
Operator, well could you help me place this call See, the number on the match book is old and faded She's living in L.A With my best old ex-friend Ray A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated
But isn't that the way they say it goes Well let's forget all that And give me the number if you can find it So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show I've overcome the blow I've learned to take it well I only wish my words Could just convince myself That it just wasn't real But that's not the way it feels
Operator, well could you help me place this call 'Cause I can't read the number that you just gave me There's something in my eyes You know it happens every time I think about the love that I thought would save me
But isn't that the way they say it goes Well let's forget all that And give me the number if you can find it So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show I've overcome the blow I've learned to take it well I only wish my words Could just convince myself That it just wasn't real But that's not the way it feels No, no, no, no That's not the way it feels
Operator, well let's forget about this call There's no one there I really wanted to talk to Thank you for your time Ah, you've been so much more then kind You can keep the dime
But isn't that the way they say it goes Well let's forget all that And give me the number if you can find it So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show I've overcome the blow I've learned to take it well I only wish my words Could just convince myself That it just wasn't real But that's not the way it feels
We've been runnin' away from somethin' we both know We've long run out of things to say and I think I'd better go So don't be gettin' excited oh-when you hear that slammin' door Cause there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor in the mornin'
And we've been hidin' from somethin' that should have never gone this far But after all it's what we've done that makes us what we are And you've been talkin' in silence well if it's silence you adore Oh there'll be one less set of footprints on your floor in the mornin'
Oh there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor One less man to walk in One less pair of jeans upon your door One less voice a-talkin'
But tomorrow's a dream away and today has turned to dust Your silver tongue has turned to clay and your golden rule to rust If that's the way that you want it well that's the way I want it more Cause there'll be one less set of footprints on your floor in the mornin' Oh there'll be one less set of footsteps on you floor in the mornin'
