Highways And Heartaches Lyrics - Joe Ely

Leaving California, she is on my mind 

I left her back in Travis county, cryin' to a clothesline 

A steel guitar on the radio is cuttin' slow and mean 

I brought home the bottle, she just wanted beans 

Highways and heartaches 

Go together like you and me 

Do you ever think about it 

When the night is sad and lonely 

I wonder if she's watchin' TV, cryin' with soap opera stars 

I wonder if she sees them in me and if we gone too far 

Look at all the lovers runnin' from their past 

Gassin' up just to get somewhere, goin' nowhere fast 

Highways and heartaches 

Go together like you and me 

Do you ever think about it 

When the night is sad and lonely? 

Do you ever think about me 

When the night is sad and lonely? 

Do you ever think about me 

When the night is sad and lonely? 

Runnin' away, don't stop the pain, it just delays the cryin' 

What's left unsaid is better swallowed than covered up with lyin' 

Though the song is over I still hear the steel guitar 

And though the past is gone for good, it still helps to swallow hard 

Highways and heartaches 

Go together like you and me 

Do you ever think about it 

When the night is sad and lonely? 

Do you ever think about it 

When the night is sad and lonely? 

Do you ever think about it 

When the night is sad and lonely?