Lyrics Emmylou Harris - The Road

I can still remember every song you played
Long ago when we were younger and we'd rock the night away
How could I see your future then where you would not grow old
With such a fire in our belly such a hunger in our souls.

I guess I probably loved you and those words rolled off your tongue
Seemed that we were trailing under some unlucky sun
And though I couldn't save you and no one was to blame
But the road we shared together once will never be the same

Hey
Gone away
Won't be coming round again
Hey
With a song I pray
And on the wings of a song I'll fly away.

I wandered in the wilderness for a while I was so lost
To everything there is a season and every blessing has it's cost
So I took what you left me and put it to some use
Went looking for an answer with those three cords and the truth

I come down from the mountain I come walking in your shoes
I was taken for a gambler when I had no more to loose
But you put me on that path. How could I refuse?
And I spend my whole life out here working on the blues

Hey...

So I carried on. You can't be haunted by the past.
People come. People go. And nothing ever lasts.
But I still think about you and wonder where you are
Can you see me from some place up there among the stars

But down here under heaven there never was a chart
To guide our way across this crooked highway of the heart
And if it's only all about the journey in the end
On that road I'm glad I came to know my old friend.

Hey
Gone away
Won't be coming round again
Hey
With a song I pray
And on the wings of a song I'll fly away.