| I set off in a flatbed truck
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| Down the ladder, down on my luck
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| Got a map of the lower 48
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| Took the first ramp headed down the interstate
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| I had a wife, but she wouldn’t have me
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| Left a job, a livin', and a family
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| There was nothin' to keep me; |
| no reason to stay
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| I went lookin' for nothin' down the blue highway
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| And we watched our lives go racin' by
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| The years rolled on in a haze
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| We took time for this, time for that
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| But we never took time babe
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| For the blue highways, highways
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| For the blue highway, highway
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| Why did I ever have any doubts
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| I didn’t need to figure it out
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| But out on the road when the nights get black
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| I whistle a tune hey, I’m never goin' back
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| And we watch our lives go racin' by
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| The years rolled on in a haze
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| We took time for this, time for that
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| Let’s take a little time baby
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| For the blue highways, highways
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| We spent wasted days believin'
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| We see something past ourselves
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| Yeah we lock our doors behind us
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| 'Cause we know this life so well
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| We never make the deadlines
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| That other people set
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| We speculate about justice
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| While we’re grabbin' what we can get
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| Get out on the highway
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| The blue highway
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| There’s people in the world
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| You never want to meet
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| Out in the alleys, down in the streets
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| There’s people hurtin' people
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| People full of hate
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| People fishin' blindly usin' money for bait
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| We watch our lives go racin' by
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| The years rolled on in a haze
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| We took time for this, time for that
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| But we never took time baby
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| For the blue highways, highways
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| For the blue highways, highways
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| Let’s take a little time, for the blue highways
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| The blue, the blue highways |