I Dream a Highway

In the blue display of the cool cathode ray
What will sustain us through the winter?

Don't lie alone behind the window shade
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love
Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
I dream a highway back to you

Let me see the mark death made
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
I dream a highway back to you
An empty wagon full of rattling bones
And thank the hatchet man who forked my tongue

Walk me out into the rain and snow
Blind and blistered by the morning white
I watched the waitress for a thousand years
Which lover are you, Jack of Diamonds?
Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love
I dream a highway back to you
I send a letter, don't know who I am
A silver vision, come molest my soul

I dream a highway back to you

I dream a highway back to you
I think I'll move down into Memphis
Radiation from the porcelain light

I dream a highway back to you
Any second now, I'm gonna turn myself on
A silver vision, come and bless my soul
Now you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram
The getaway kickin' up cinders
John, he's kicking out the footlights
Fire riding, wheeling when I lead 'em up
I dream a highway back to you
And dream a highway back to you
A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed

Where did last years lessons go?
I wish you knew me, Jack of Diamonds
Moon in the mirror on a three hour Jones
I lie and wait until the wagons come
I dream a highway back to you
Sunday morning at the Diner
Step into the light, poor Lazarus
Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love
I dream a highway back to you
I dreamed a highway back to, you
A silver vision, come and rest my soul

A silver vision, come arrest my soul

Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand
I'll take you as a viper into my head
I dream a highway back to you
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags
I dream a highway back to you
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love
I dream a highway back to you
Hang overhead from all directions
I dream a highway back to you
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
I dream a highway back to you
Now, give me some of what you're having
Saw a wheel inside a wheel, heard a call within a call

Drank whiskey with my water, sugar in my tea
A silver vision, come and bless my soul

The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand new band
I dream a highway back to you
I'm an indisguisable shade of twilight
Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love
A silver vision, come molest my soul
I dream a highway back to you