When The Open Road Is Closing In Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

Time, measured in dotted yellow lines has passed you by 

And I never said, an honest thing to you in all my life 

Hard times go slowly and the good times never come 

The world is a motor inn in the Iowa highway slum 

When the open road is closing in 

And you can't say where it ends and you begin 

When every truck stop dive's you another five years off your life 

When the open road is closing in 

And the dotted yellow lines begin to spin 

When the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all 

You won't be coming home again 

Ciao, you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns 

Now I have been closing all the shutters in the house 

Well, I know, you'll be back when every tree is turning brown 

You'll find, the house is empty and the swing set's fallen down