Circle Back - John Hiatt, The Goners

Ward Bond

Was his sidekick rowdy Yates

Drove that wagon train out west

Right along this interstate

'Cross the high plains of Kansas

To the Colorado line

Spent a lot of sleepless nights 'round the campfire

They had mountains on their minds

Well, those high plains people

They’re different somehow

You spent your life leaning into a hard wind

I guess, you’re less likely to take a bow

All these stories buried out here

They’re calling to me

Like the earthquakes in California

Like the hills back in Tennessee

I gotta circle back and touch something near

Find out which way to go just to get on out of here

I lost my thread and I’ve lost some time

But it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind

Well, it’s ninety nine in Topeka

The wind is blowin' hot

Blowin' through my oldest daughter’s hair

With everything else I forgot

I drove her out to college

Drove back through an empty space

Thinkin' back to when she was a baby

Tryin' hard to see that face

I gotta circle back and touch something near

Find out which way to go just to get on out of here

Well, I lost my thread and I’ve lost some time

But it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind

Two kids up and at 'em

One more left at home

She’s a spark plug, a real fire cracker

And in four years she’ll be gone

They just blow through your life

Like the wind on the plains

Like the dust that covers everything

'Til the rivers fill with rain

I gotta circle back and touch something near

Find out which way to go just to get on out of here

Well, I lost my thread and I’ve lost some time

But it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind

Ohh, yeah, I got to circle back

I got to circle back, I got to circle back

I got to, got to, got to, got to, got to

Got to, got to, got to circle back