
Date of issue: 11.08.2019
Record label: 3 AMIGOS
Song language: English
Refuge Of The Road |
I met a friend of spirit |
He drank and womanized |
And I sat before his sanity |
I was holding back from crying |
He saw my complications |
And he mirrored me back simplified |
And we laughed how our perfection |
Would always be denied |
«Heart and humor and humility» |
He said «Will lighten up your heavy load» |
I left him for the refuge of the roads |
I fell in with some drifters |
Cast upon a beachtown |
Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs |
And I wound up fixing dinner |
For them and Boston Jim |
I well up with affection |
Thinking back down the roads to then |
The nets were overflowing |
In the Gulf of Mexico |
They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads |
There was spring along the ditches |
There were good times in the cities |
Oh radiant happiness |
It was all so light and easy |
Till I started analyzing |
And I brought on my old ways |
A thunderhead of judgment was |
Gathering in my gaze |
And it made most people nervous |
They just didn’t want to know |
What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads |
I pulled off into a forest |
Crickets clicking in the ferns |
Like a wheel of fortune |
I heard my fate turn turn turn |
And I went running down a white sand road |
I was running like a white-assed deer |
Running to lose the blues |
To the innocence in here |
These are the clouds of Michelangelo |
Muscular with gods and sungold |
Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads |
In a highway service station |
Over the month of June |
Was a photograph of the earth |
Taken coming back from the moon |
And you couldn’t see a city |
On that marbled bowling ball |
Or a forest or a highway |
Or me here least of all |
You couldn’t see these cold water restrooms |
Or this baggage overload |
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads |
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Big Yellow Taxi | 2012 |
Carey | 2012 |
Goodbye Blue Sky ft. Joni Mitchell, James Galway | 2010 |
Free Man in Paris | 2012 |
At Last | 2000 |
Help Me | 2012 |
Got 'Til It's Gone (Feat. Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell) ft. Q-Tip, Joni Mitchell | 1996 |
Answer Me, My Love | 2000 |
The Last Time I Saw Richard | 2012 |
California | 2012 |
Blue | 2012 |
Little Green | 2012 |
My Old Man | 2012 |
Down to You | 2012 |
This Flight Tonight | 2012 |