i dream a highway

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 kickin' 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 vision

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 whiskey 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 inside 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