10 Years (Gotta Get Out)

Like wooden spokes the highways all run out of town
And I’m sittin’ on the hub, which one will I start down?
It’s all the same direction: east, west, north, or south
I gotta put this city behind me, damn I gotta get out

Oh I gotta get out
There was never a doubt
Thought I’d just be a minute, see whose dreams were left about
I’d pick one up, dust it off, set course on my new route
But it’s been ten years of spinning around, I gotta get out

From thirty thousand feet up I’ll just pick a spot
Let me throw a dart, stop the globe and I’ll get off
It’s like I’ve always worn a blindfold anyway
And the cure for indecision didn’t hit shelves today

Oh I gotta get out
There was never a doubt
Thought I’d just be a minute, see whose dreams were left about
I’d pick one up, dust it off, set course on my new route
But it’s been ten years of indecision I’ve gotta get out

I can’t pretend my heart could never choose a place
But if home is where the heart is, why have neither left a trace?
I blame myself for wrapping them both up with you
To cross the wide Pacific like the plovers do

Oh I gotta get out
There was never a doubt
Thought I’d just be a minute, see whose dreams were left about
I’d pick one up, dust it off, set course on my new route
But I’ve spent ten years unanchored, damn I gotta get out

Oh I gotta get out
There was never a doubt
Thought I’d just be a minute, see whose dreams were left about
I’d pick one up, dust it off, set course on my new route
But it’s been ten years of spinning around, I gotta get out

I gotta put this city behind me, damn I gotta get out