Homesick - Goodnight, Texas

The highway signs

The yellow lines

Rollin' out and under by the thousands

The desert nights

The city lights

I left to be a ramblin' cowboy

Sayin' so long

With one last song

Is the best way to keep from marrying

But staying strong

When it all goes wrong

Is a weight I’m pretty used to carrying

I think of you at night

When the world is absent light

When everything’s so quiet and so lonesome

You’re the cigarette

That I just can’t kick

I’m homesick

Ah, babe, we had it good

Underneath the hood

Was an engine well-greased and purrin'

And I fell that yawn

A-callin' me on

To somewhere strange and allurin'

And every mile

Is so worthwhile

When there’s someone out there who will meet you

And I pretend

That my heart did mend

But sometimes the road can defeat you

Well I think of you at dawn

When the sun is barely on

When even birds of morning have a sturdy grasp upon

A branch

A home

A silent little song

When everything’s so quiet and so lonesome

You’re the cigarette

That I just can’t kick

I’m homesick

All these phantom pains

Runnin' in my veins

Are proof that my skin is not as thick

You’re the last silhouette

Before the sun does set

I’m homesick