Drive All Night - John McCutcheon

Eyes are burning

Hands can feel

After fourteen hours

Behind this wheel

I search the span

The radio

For anything familiar

For anything I know

In the dark ??

I fix my sight

Read my map

By the dashboard light

This old car

Knows what to do

Take me straight and fast

Back home to you

I would drive all night

To lay my head

Just one more time

On my lover’s bed

To see her face

In the morning light

To hold her close

Feel each breath she’d take

I would drive all night

Floorboard’s littered

With my past

All those things I’ve wasted

But I knew it’d never last

Once I understood

Now I don’t

Once it all made sense

But now it won’t

I would drive all night

To lay my head

Just one more time

On my lover’s bed

To see her face

In the morning light

To hold her close

Feel each breath she’d take

I would drive all night

Ain’t no way

I could explain

This hungry feeling

This empty lane?

It’s like a beacon

From the other side

That makes me take this road

And ride

It’s a thousand miles

On a long dark road

The past ain’t nothing

But a long dark load

You’ve seen me stumble

You’ve seen me fall

Through all these years

Through it all

I would drive all night

To lay my head

Just one more time

On my lover’s bed

To see her face

In the morning light

To hold her close

Feel each breath she’d take

I would drive all night

To hold her close

Feel each breath she’d take

I would drive all night

I would drive all night