Lonesome Road

Songwriter - Tim Hildebrandt

Publisher & PRO- Joanne L Martin Music, BMI

In a prison without any bars and nothing to show for these scars
Just a highway choking with cars, that move so slow
Loving you was a crime and now I’m doing my time
Reading between the lines on this lonesome road

I’m stuck in a no-passing zone, the steel the stacks and the chrome
These eighteen wheels start to moan, it’s a heavy load
And life can be so unjust, my past is turning to rust
Gone in a cloud of dust on this lonesome road

I am guilty of the charge of foolish pride
Holding back these tears I want to cry
Serving out my time I’m doing love without parole
Shackled to this long and lonesome road

This big old diesel’s my cell, and where the highway ends I can’t tell
But I’m going ride it to hell or where the four winds blow
I’m just gonna put her in cruise and with the pedals on the soles of my shoes
Try to get over you on this lonesome road