Highways And Heartaches - Joe Ely

Verse 1:

Leaving California

She is on my mind

I left her back in Travis County

Crying to a clothesline

Steel guitar on the radio,

Cuttin' slow and mean

I brought home the bottle

She just wanted beans

Chorus

Highways and heartaches

Go together like you and me

Do you ever think about it

When the night is sad and lonely.

Verse 2:

I wonder if she’s watching TV

Cryin' with soap opera stars

I wonder if she’s seen it in me

Or if we’ve gone to far.

Look at all the lovers,

Runnin' from their past

Gassin' up just to get somewhere

But goin' nowhere fast

Chorus

Bridge:

Do you ever think about it

When the night is sad and lonely

Verse 3:

Runnin' away don’t stop the pain

It just delays the cryin'

What’s left unsaid is better swallowed

Is covered up with lyin'

Though the song is over

I can still hear the steel guitar’s

And though the past is gone for good

It still helps to swallow hard.

Chorus