Road To No Return/carolina Lyrics - Robert Earl Keen

Out along the road to no return 

Silence rules the day and knows no friend 

The troubled past and all her tribe adjourn 

To watch your dreams unravel in the wind 

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But each new morning sunrise 

Is just as good as gold 

And all the hope inside you 

Will keep you from the cold 

Bare your soul let your spirit burn 

Out along the road to no return 

The sweet smell of nighttime rides on the breeze 

The river is winding through the hickory trees 

The redbones are howling down by Wilson's Bridge 

The lawmen stand waiting upon Deadman's Ridge 

[Chorus] 

Ooh Carolina so dark I can't see 

Ooh Carolina won't you let me go free 

I came here with Lily a year just last fall 

We left her old daddy back in Oonegal 

We made us a home place of Black Mountain stone 

But one cold winter morning I woke up alone 

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Days full of silence are so incomplete 

Nights without Lily I took to the streets 

And in the streets of Asheville I channeled my pain 

'Til one raging black night I slept in the rain 

I dreamed of a refuge a red velvet world 

And I swore my sweet Lily was one of the girls 

I loved her so madly I loved her so long 

I woke with my dream girl but her life was all gone 

[Chorus] 

Love has no boundary sorrow no end 

And the lawmen of Asheville have no mercy in them 

[Chorus] 

Let me reach Tennessee