can't slow down

the highway bends like my lover's leg

pulls me in like a wick draws a flame

she don't bother to remember my name

we don't talk of such things

i'll kiss you once

baby

i'll kiss you twice

but i can't kiss you for the rest of your life

'cause i'm not fit to be the man that makes you a wife

baby

baby its just my foolish plight

whatever road i may go down

if it bends

if it don't know how

i ain't stopped since i left my home town

and i can't slow down

i do what any man can to survive

work a day or maybe even night

but i can't work inside for some 9-5

honey not in this life

whatever road i may go down

if it bends

if it don't know how

i ain't stopped since i left my hometown

and i can't slow down

brown bodies

bent at the waist

frozen in a field as i drive by

in my unconscious pace

freedom is not a state of mind

nor is it a united state

oh

and it sure ain't my escape

whatever road i may go down

if it bends

if it don't know how

i ain't stopped since i left my hometown

and i can't slow down

no no no oh no

and i can't slow down

no oh no

oh

lord

and i can't slow down