Can't Slow Down - Brett Dennen

The highway bends like my lover’s leg

Pulls me in like a wick draws a flame

She don’t bother to remember my name

We don’t talk of such things

I’ll kiss you once

Baby, I’ll kiss you twice

But I can’t kiss you for the rest of your life

'Cause I’m not fit to be the man that makes you a wife

Baby, baby its just my foolish plight

Whatever road I may go down

If it bends, if it don’t know how

I ain’t stopped since I left my home town

And I can’t slow down

I do what any man can to survive

Work a day or maybe even night

But I can’t work inside for some 9−5

Honey not in this life

Whatever road I may go down

If it bends, if it don’t know how

I ain’t stopped since I left my hometown

And I can’t slow down

Brown bodies

Bent at the waist

Frozen in a field as I drive by

In my unconscious pace

Freedom is not a state of mind

Nor is it a united state

Oh, and it sure ain’t my escape

Whatever road I may go down

If it bends, if it don’t know how

I ain’t stopped since I left my hometown

And I can’t slow down

No no no oh no

And I can’t slow down

No oh no

Oh, lord

And I can’t slow down