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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 marryin'

And stayin' strong
When all goes wrong
Is a weight I'm pretty used to carryin'

But I think of you at night
When the world is absent light
When everything's so quiet and so lonesome
You're the cigarette
I just can't kick
I'm homesick

Ah babe we had it good
Underneath the hood
Was an engine well greased, and purring

I felt that yawn
A-callin' me on
To somewhere strange and alluring

And every mile
Is so worthwhile
When there's someone out there who will meet you

I pretend that
My heart did mend
But sometimes the road can defeat you

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
I just can't kick
I'm homesick

These phantom pains
Runnin' in my veins
Are proof that my skin is not as thick

You're the last sillhouette
Before the sun does set
I'm homesick

c. 2018 Goodnight, Texas - Seriously Serious Songs (ASCAP) / Porch Couch Songs (ASCAP)

Appears on the 2018 album “Conductor”
Recorded by Goodnight, Texas
Mixed by Scott McDowell
Mastered by Jonathan Kirchner