lirik lagu ibi - highway elegy
the highway is an aisle to the altar of the sun
a baptism in speed, another season on the run
where i am and where i’m headed, i believe that i’m unsure
but the place that i am leaving, i’ve left many times before
there’s a high and faded sign that heralds this is my last chance
for another thousand miles for gasoline and for a dance
and since my engine’s running empty and the sun is stooping low
i squint my weary eyes and seek thе one and only road
off the long and tangled highway
with a thousand milеs behind me
and a thousand miles to go
i turn the key and shiver, for the summer’s lost its heat
it’s sleeping off its fever in the cold and dirty streets
and with my shadow like a dog that follows hungry at my feet
i go up to read the prices and i see instead of numbers, there are pomegranate seeds
i search but i already know i’ll find no slip of gold
just a truck that’s nearly empty and a pocket full of holes
but i think that i remember this. those pictures i do know
she told me this story, didn’t she? long ago
in this one
you gather all your sorrows and your fortunes full of woe
you claim that i know nothing of the long and mangled road
and in this one
i’m saying we could leave tonight, but you don’t want to go
and in this one
you ask if i can take you with me, drive until the snow
but we’ll never make it out that way, oh, you and i both know
it’s a highway to h~ll, child, or something like that
you’ll never make it far, child on a road like that
it’s a highway to h~ll, child, or something like that
you’ll never make it far, child on a road like that
it’s a highway to h~ll, child, or something like that
you’ll never make it far, child, on a road like that
in this one, you’re at the kitchen table and i almost wish you’d ask again
your hands are pulling bleeding hearts to fill your bowl of glass and then
the dashboard’s twisting slowly in its bitter cowboy light
oh, my knuckles looked familiar on the steering wheel that night
it’s a highway from h~ll, child, or something like that
but every road that you take forward is the road that you’ll take back
my truck is nearly empty and the sun has sunken low
the fever dream of autumn curling wounded ’round my bones
the silver highway hum alluding gently i must go
but now i know. i understand to leave this place, i must leave it half my soul
the road begins to look the same no matter where you’re bound
and life falls like a shadow between the here and now
the engine is an angel and he lifts his cup of chrome
and i fill it with my promise i’ll be seeing you again the next time i drive home
filaments of future streak the highway as i go
i could never take you with me. i must go this road alone
when i check my rearview mirror, i no longer see that sign
all i see is my reflection, and my mother’s ageless eyes
and in the glove compartment there’s a plastic bag of fruit
there is no absolution and there are no absolutes
was it yours or was it my hands pulled the seeds out one by one?
on the pomegranate highway
with a thousand miles behind me
and a lifetime yet to run
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