gillian welch ~ i dream a highway

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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

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.

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.

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.

oh i dream a highway back to you love
a winding ribbon with a band of gold
a silver vison come arrest my soul
i dream a highway back to you.

which lover are you, jack of diamonds?
now you be emmylou and i'll be gram
i send a letter, don't know who i am
i dream a highway back to you.

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.

i wish you knew me, jack of diamonds
fire-riding, wheeling when i lead em up
drank whisky with my water, sugar in my tea
my sails in rags with the staggers and the jags
i dream a highway back to you.

oh i dream a highway back to you love
a winding ribbon with a band of gold
a silver vision come molest my soul
i dream a highway back to you.

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
i dream a highway back to you.

hang overhead from all directions
radiation from the porcelain light
blind and blistered by the morning white
i dream a highway back to you.

sunday morning at the diner
hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
i watched the waitress for a thousand years
saw a wheel within a wheel, heard a call within a call
i dreamed a highway back to you.

oh i dream a highway back to you love
a winding ribbon with a band of gold
a silver vision come molest my soul
i dream a highway back to you.

step into the light, poor Lazarus
don't lie alone behind the window shade
let me see the mark death made
i dream a highway back to you.
i dream a highway back to you.

what will sustain us through the winter?
where did last years lessons go?
walk me out into the rain and snow
i dream a highway back to you.

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
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.