Artist: John Hiatt
Song: The Open Road
Album: The Open Road
Year: 2010
Shrunken head and Mardi gras beads
Hanging on a rear view mirror that bleeds
Keeping her eyes on the open road
No telling where that son a bitch goes
Got her doors locked doing seventy five
Don't care to be caught now dead or alive
Seen enough to kill anyone's soul
Keeping her eyes on the open road
Keeping her eyes on the open road
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The open road where the hopeless come
To see if hope still runs
One by one they bring their broke down loads
And leave them where the hobo dreams are stowed
Out on the open road
Out on the open road
Midnight falling like a bag of bones
Weighted down now the rest with stones
Bouncing off a river the moon made steel
Crashing off the chrome of a steering wheel
Anything back there is burned and dead
Any love they made any words they said
Nothing to do now but drop it and roll
Into the lights of the open road
Into the lights of the open road
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