This was the first song I wrote after the catastrophic flameout of my old band. I sat down in my apartment in the East Village and started strumming. It's just an E chord and an A chord, until you hit the chorus, and then something struck me -- this is a song about transformation, leaving, reinvention, resurrection, and the unknown. The bridge came out of nowhere, and it -- to me -- it sounded like the Eagles or something. I played it for some friends, who really dug it. It's still one of my favorite songs. A road song for sure. I'll see you out there...
lyrics
Went down to the Mason/Dixon
And drank half a bottle of Jack
Hey hey hey
Looks like I'm leaving New York City
I don't know when I'm coming back
Hey hey hey
Maybe I'll head to California
And live in the Hollywood Hills
Maybe I'll grab my old guitar
And head down to Nashville
Out on that lonely road
I don't know when or where...I'll see you out there...
Fell asleep in Penn Station
I was waiting on the midnight train
Hey hey hey
Officer, I'll move right along
I was just trying to stop the pain
Hey hey hey
Maybe I'll head down to Virginia
Think about it all a while
Maybe I'll head up to Chicago
I love that Magnificent Mile
Out on that lonely road
I don't know when or where...I'll see you out there...
We're all just prisoners of the white lines
And all the memories we left behind
We're all just prisoners of that lonely road
And I'm still getting old...getting old...on that lonely road...
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