Dar Williams Traveling Again Lyrics

Traveling Again Lyrics




Words and music by Dar Williams

Have I got everything? Am I ready to
go?
Is it going to be wild, is it gonna be the best time?
Or am I just
a-saying so-o-o-o? Am I ready to go?
What do I hear when I say I hear the
call of the road?

I think it started with driving, more speed, more
deals, more
sky, more wheels
More things to leave behind, now it's all in
a day for the
modern mind
And I am traveling again
Calling this a ghost
town, and where is the heartland?
And I'm afraid, oh, was there any good
reason, that I had to go
When all I know is I can never come back.


Traveling I made a friend, he had a trouble in his head
And all he
could say's that he knew that the bottle
Drank the woman from his bed, from
his bed
He said "I'm not gonna lose that way again."
But sober
is just like driving, more joy, more dread, someone
turns her head
And
smiles and disappears 
He's gotta take it like it is, and it goes too
fast
And he is just like me, caught in-between, no sage advisor
Does
weary mean wiser? 
And someday will I sing the mountains that carried me
away away
From home and hometown boys like you?

Yeah, but what about
us? Was it really that bad?
Oh it's hard to believe I want a highway
roadstop
More than all the times we had, on little dirt roads
What am I
reaching for that's better than a hand to hold?
It really was about driving,
not fame, not wealth,
Not driving away from myself
It's just myself drove
away from me 
And now I gotta get it back and it goes so fast, so I am
traveling
again
Sitting at the all-nite, picking up a pen
And I'm
afraid, oh, was there any good reason
That I had to go, when all I know is I
am all alone again
And you are the ghost town, and I am the heartland
And
I can say, oh, that's a very good reason
That I had to go, but now all I
know is I can never come back
And I will never go back.