The Road Is Not Your Only Friend

You've been grinding out the days, miles and galleys in your palm

Spending all of your down time playing amber solitaire

Wearing nothing but long sleeves to hide the scars in your arms

From the shivered fuzz of burning skin with cigarettes

If you're looking down a hole each time you peer out of the blinds

I can tell you right now sir that there are still some who care

When notes fall like silver and the words ring true like time

Your life is not this lonely night, the road is not your only friend



You watched the pivot and the swing candle lit in that bar

Rolled and tumbled the hall at evening's end

On an April Monday night in Cedar Rapids Iowa

Your life is not this lonely night, the road is not your only friend

Your life is not this lonely night, the road is not your only friend



The fog of imitators might blow on through your eyes some nights

But they couldn't touch you sitting on the wall at

Tailem Bend

She shared your last cigarette lord, she was such a sight

Your path splits every way from here, the road is not your only friend

Your path splits every way from here, the road is not your only friend

Your life is not this lonely night, the road is not your only friend

Your life is not this lonely night, the road is not your only friend