oh i dream a highway back to you love
a winding ribon 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 old oprey's got a brand new bag
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 wagon's come
and dream a highway back to you

the getaway kicking up cinders
an empty wagon full of rattling bones
boot 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 ribon 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 sent 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-eyed and wheeling when i lay them out
drank whiskey with my water, sugar with my tea
my sales 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 ribon 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

hangover head from all directions
radiation from the porcelain light
blinding blistered by the molding white
i dream a highway back to you

sunday morning at the diner
hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
i watch 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 ribon with a band of gold
a silver vision convalesce 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 year's 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 ribon 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 ribon with a band of gold
a silver vision come and bless my soul
i dream a highway back to you

- gillian welch, 2001


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