I Dream a Highway

Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love

A winding ribbon with a band of gold

A silver vision come and rest my soul

I dream a highway back to you

John, he's kicking out the footlights

The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand-new band

Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand

I dream a highway back to you

I think I'll move down into Memphis

And thank the hatchet man who forked my tongue

I lie and wait until the wagons come

And dream a highway back to you

The getaway kicking up cinders

An empty wagon full of rattling bones

Moon in the mirror on a three-hour Jones

I dream a highway back to you

Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love

A winding ribbon with a band of gold

A silver vision come arrest my soul

I dream a highway back to you

Which lover are you, Jack of diamonds?

Now you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram

I'll send a letter, don't know who I am

I dream a highway back to you

I'm an undisguisable shade of twilight

Any second now, I'm gonna turn myself on

In the blue display of the cool cathode ray

I dream a highway back to you

I wish you knew me, Jack of diamonds

Fire-riding, wheeling when I laid 'em up

Drank whiskey with my water, sugar with my tea

My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags

I dream a highway back to you

Oh, I dream a highway back to you, love

A winding ribbon with a band of gold

A silver vision convalesced my soul

I dream a highway back to you

Now give me some of what you're having

I'll take you as a viper into my head

A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed

And I dream a highway back to you

Hang overhead from all directions

Radiation from the porcelain light

Blind and blistered by the morning white

I dream a highway back to you

Sunday morning at the diner

Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears