I can see the boat
Frozen on the shoreline
In the last red light of the year
Gray sky, quickly closing in
Tide pulling out from around the piers
I can see that steel bird clearing the Rockies
Radio its call to home
To some straight line, pale and foreign
But sure of flight, it flys alone

And I guess you're feeling
A lack of knowing
How it all fits in when things aren't quiet going.
Sitting on the highway killing time
Waiting on the ride
Well, hold to your own
You won't be denied
Won't be denied
When the walls seem great
Darkness wide
Don't give in.

I can see her now, cutting 'cross the desert
The dust behind, blowing her in
Past ghost towns, buildings bleached and gray
'Cross the burnt plains, that the night awakes
A child's memories stir a yearning, a promise that leads her there
Like a dancer, reaching, to complete
The steps she always throught were theirs.
CHORUS

You could say that it's lonely
Sometimes there are fears
Finding only maybes for all we love
Hold dear.
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Mary said her dreams floated on the wings of early airplanes
Days when only madman dared to fly
Everyday she'd point them into the wind, to the horizon
She'd put them all away at night.
Because her husband would soon be wanting dinner
Because the children would soon come in from school
Because there was no time in this life as wife and mother
To cut loose

Everyone I know hears the call of the horizon
Everyone I know has dreams they hide
Well, if the madman in their soul
Could somehow seize control
They can fly

Mary said she came from Arizona
Raised where the sky was clear and wide
Always room to move, change your mind, change directions
Then at 22, she was his bride
He needed her to stop work for home and family
He needed her to depend on his job
He needed her to live the life that he defined
And over time grew the great divide.

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Mary said she packed up the kids and left just after New Year's
Found an apartment and a job
Starting anew, said she's going back to school
Life is better, but it's hard
Wilbur and Orville, you know they weren't such heroes
Daring to fly over sand dunes by the shore
Never stepped into the wind without safe landing assured
Who ever flies like that anymore

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Mary said her dreams floated on the wings of early airplanes
Days when only madmen dared to fly...

Now I know
How those three wise men felt
On the edge of forever
Tired and full of doubt
But that star of tomorrow
It promised a way out
From the frozen desert darkness
From their weak and heavy hearts

I was there in the darkness
Cold, full of fear
Until your blue eyes shined upon me
Voice soft and clear
It's a dream I've protected
Whispered all these years
From the edge of your doorstep
Hoping you might hear

You're my star of hope
And it's a road of faith I take
To trust this heart, in your arms

Now it's cold on your porch
In these first few weeks of winter
Where I carry this torch
Burning bright and strong
It's a light to all the shadows
Of the fears you have known
Helps you find me in the distance
Set me right when I'm wrong
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Sometimes I worry
Where's it going
All this light we give off
In the splendor and the wonder
Will it always be enough
Well those tired true believers
Followed their hearts
And this torch could burn eternal
With that guiding light above
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Adam's Diner on the corner
Routes 22 and 55
That's where he met her
And together they changed each others lives
It was a cold wind that blew him down the highway that night
He was running, trying to make time
Escape the white lines in his mind

Walking into the room with one intention
To pull over and push the pavement aside
Drown out the sound of those diesel engines
But instead he drown, in the brown sweet Emma's eyes.

She was a beauty, almost 30
Left there stranded by romance
Almost married, couldn't hold on
No, that train pulled out too fast
She was lonely, he was late
Soon they'd trade
There'd be hell to pay
When in the months to come the news would chase him down
His wife would take no prisoners.

Emma leaned over the counter to say, "How are ya?"
"I think you might like to try our ribs."
And under the neon lights of Adam's Diner.
Well they didn't need no menu
To know the blue plate special.
He was about to sit down to home cooking
Too many miles from his own table.
Better Slow down
Use caution
Don't let them catch you watching those
Bright lights on the road

Well in the long haul
Decades rolled
He had a son somewhere on that road
Be never knew him, only rumors
How he looked much more like mom
The family half forgave him as he tried to settle down
But that lost son of the highway
Became a mystery to his own
Sometimes at night headlights can make faces
Flyi across the windshield and they're gone
Driving on they wonder, did I see him?
Though they're all grown up
With families of their own
Always on the lookout for their brother of the road.
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On this walk of a lifetime
I meet lots of people
The hurt and the happy
The broken, the bad
Behind a new face sometimes lies and old memory
Familiar embrace almost lost to the past
And from these short glimpses I write what I'm feeling
Doesn't mean much to anyone but me.
Still, if you listen and you capture the meaning
Then this song was written for you as for me.

Cause I sing about friends
Sing about lovers
Sing about people I've seen but don't know
I drift through their lives with this need to uncover
A small understanding as the story unfolds

There have been days of exhaustion, hours I've cried
I've tasted success, felt time racing by
Try to keep up but I never quite make it
Somehow it helps to sit down and write
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When I play all these songs
You know what I'm thinking
The things I believe, how I get by
For it's just you and me, talking to one another
Taking a moment before saying goodbye.

Yes a small understanding before my time's done.

I held on tight, to my father's hand
Learning how to stand, where to fall
Seems so long ago
So much the punch and roll
Sometimes I still don't know
Where to make my stand
Lead me out of the breaking waves
Keep me safe 'cross the deep unknown

I'll keep this boat afloat
When the tide runs low
Heat never seems to break 'till the rain comes
Maybe that's my one mistake
Never wait that long

I traded dreams and pride
For my first steps alone
So much to try
So much to know
Seems so long ago
The lessons on this road
Instead of feeling wise and old
Still a child to it all
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Now life is long
But time runs fast
The good, the bad
This all will pass
There is so much to come
So many songs unsung
If we can just hang on
To what's ahead
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Streets of madness
Deep black with rain
Somewhere between the end, and beginning
Lost along the lamp posts
I hoped might light the way

I hear you call
I hear my feet, hit the pavement
Heavy with sweat from walking all this way
Lead me somewhere
Won't have to be afraid

Dreams, have a way of sleeping
A way of leading us home
Have a way of needing
Of heeding
A call of their own

I have no jewels
No charms, no graces
Nothing left to bring me closer to you
Oh, what to do?
When it comes down to me, to you.
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Searching through buildings
For what we can't provide
One place to fuse these separate lives

Searching these buildings
For what we can't deny
A touch that quickens deep inside

The laughter after the break from reckless flight
Chasing our dreams through the schemes of each others lives

Well I think the heart sings
Finding it's one true light - Right
And the pieces fall to one.

Blind intuition
A smile we can't disguise
The hunger that lingers in bar room eyes
So many faces stark beneath city lights
Twist through the concrete steel night

There are those scars, the bars, we will not bend
Promises broken, harshly spoken anger
Time will mend,
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The street lights roll
Over the polished glass and chrome
Dance off your ear rings in the night
Where we are going
The road, she will not tell
We steal her secrets as we ride.
All to one

Pulled out of town
Up on the highway
Doing what I knew how to do
But in the hum of the engine
My mind start drifting
And I'd think of you

I use to watch you
At your locker
You never noticed me
Undercover.
Well I saw something there I just never got over
Thought someday maybe you'd see it, too.

For more than a decade
These feelings haunted
Something magic and true
It's one reason I love you
Love you
For the things I can't do.

Now when we turn out the lights
I truly believe things will work out fine
Come those bumps in the night
Honey we'll face them
Chase them from our fears
To the light
It all comes so easy with two hearts, two minds

I used to play home
Living alone
In a world devoid of the truth
Never knew how much was missing
Only how much I could lose

I used to play home
Until you showed me how to make a home come true
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It was there in the mirror
Of the Folies Bergere
That she found all the years that had passed
All the nights, tending her
Slipped away like the drinks she had poured
In the laughter and budding romance

No one noticed her stare
Or the look of dispair
From the floor full of dancers entranced

The music played on, night was young
Except for one
In the mirror at the Folies Bergere

She had come from the South
Filled with stories about the city of love and of lights

She said yes to the pay never meaning to stay
Past a taste of the very good life

But her hunger had lasted much longer
Even grown with the things she had seen

The dancers twirled on, night was young
Except for one
In the mirror at the Folies Bergere

There were lines, she could trace
The lost days 'cross her face
Still she never wanted anything more

Than to be on the floor as they played
To laugh and to fade
In the mirror at the Folies Bergere

The sun comes up
And she's up for the morning
Smiling and singing and moving about
So happy to have a new day to play in
Happy to be around

And if you watch her
She'll show you something
Something that you can take home for your own
An insight to life
A way to live it
Taking each day as it comes

And if problems come
Just as problems do
Well those tears fall down
Becky's brown eyes, too.

Just wash it away
And wake up the next morning
Start a new day
That's the best you can do
There's so many things
That can happen tomorrow
But stay with today 'till it's through.

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