Traveling Again Lyrics - 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 saying so? 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 its all in a day for the modern mind 

And I am traveling again 

Calling this a ghost town and where is the heartland? 

And Im 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 says that he knew that the bottle 

Drank the woman from his bed, from his bed 

He said, "Im not gonna lose that way again" 

But sober is just like driving 

More joy, more dread, someone turns her head and smiles and disappears 

Hes 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 its hard to believe I want a highway roadstop 

More than all the times we had on little dirt roads 

What am I reaching for, thats better than a hand to hold? 

It really was about driving 

Not fame, not wealth, not driving away from myself 

Its 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 Im 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, thats a very good reason 

That I had to go but now all I know is I can never come back, yeah yeah 

And I will never go back