Between the Dirt and the Stars - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Try to conjure up a night

Of jessamine upon the air

I’m seventeen and in a car

Ready to ride anywhere

This summer night sticks to my skin

And the beer’s gone to my head

My arm hangs out the window

And I can’t hear what you just said

Over the radio

Wild, wild horses

Everything you’ll ever know

Is in the choruses

Everything that made you whole

Everything that broke your heart

Whatever called you by your soul

And piece by piece took you apart

Every spark you ever chased

All the faith love robbed you of

Every light the dark erased

Every cause that gave you up

Turn on the radio

Wild, wild horses

Everywhere we’d ever go

Is in the choruses

Standing on the porch tonight

All I hear is a distant car

Watching the fading light

Between the dirt and the stars

Between the rough and smooth

And the easy and the hard

The lonely sound of loneliness

That’s shaped just like my heart

Years will pass before we turn

To face the place where we come from

Years will pass before we learn

What time denies to everyone

If we’re lucky ghosts and prayers

Are company, not enemies

I time travel straight back there

When you were singing back to me

Along with the radio

Wild, wild horses

Everything we’ll ever know

Is in the choruses

Over the radio

Wild, wild horses

Everywhere we’ll ever go

Is in the choruses