Down The Road Tonight Lyrics - The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby

There's a place 

A local roadside shack 

A poor man's paris with a parking lot in the back 

There's a girl there 

She knows how to unwind 

She don't talk much but she knows just how to act 

I said - don't tell me she don't love me 

The money's just a mere formality 

Every day, every night 

Somethings going on, something's going on 

Down the road over yonder 

Any place, any time when I'm fading 

My love lies waiting 

Down the road tonight 

When I was younger 

All the older boys 

Would drive me way out past the county fair 

They'd laugh and point out 

This roadside trailer 

And say something wild's going on over there 

They said - what they're doing 

Don't mean nothing to you now 

But someday it'll mean everything 

There were movies in the parlor 

They were dealing one-eyed jacks 

And when I said I loved her 

She said - just keep coming back