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This song is about a relationship lyricist Sam Herring had in his early 20’s which came to an end due to the strains caused by his life on the road.
The couple didn’t see each other for a number of years after the break-up, though Herring tried to look for her.
Finally, they meet—making him try to...
Left out on the road eight years ago
And you left too but I never really thought you would really go
If I knew then—I’s really losing you
I’d change my ways and my mind—fore I lose control
Cuz in a darkened space, we watched our souls replace
And said our ‘goodbyes’
But we didn’t know the shape
And for years now
I been hunting you down
Trying to find out
Your hiding place
Oh, at last!
You’re here in my arms again
And I don’t know how long
So I won’t waste a bit
The beauty of the road—is lost in your eyes—I drift
Softly back to when, we were young and in love
Where does it go?
You spend your whole life wishing and working all you gets the end of the rope
Oh what do we know?
You spend your whole life searching and find the thing you’re looking is what you lost so long ago
And for years now, I’ve been hunting the sound
That soft breath on the back of my neck, got me running…
Oh, at last!
You’re here in my arms again
And I don’t know how long
So I won’t waste a bit
The beauty of the road—is lost in your eyes—I drift
Softly back to when, we were young and in love
You’re here in my arms again
And I don’t know how long
So I won’t waste a bit
The beauty of the road—is lost in your eyes—I drift
Softly back to when, we were young and in love
Oh we were young
And in love
I was young
And in love
Beauty of the Road was written by Gerrit Welmers & Samuel T. Herring & William Cashion.
Beauty of the Road was produced by John Congleton.
Future Islands released Beauty of the Road on Fri Apr 07 2017.
The lyrics in this track are written by Future Islands' frontman Samuel T. Herring, whose writting tends to be authobiographical. The music was however written by Gerrit Welmers (keyboards) and William Cashion (bass), who in Future Islands' writing process compose the music first, which then inspire...
Samuel Herring: Yeah, well, that song’s deeply personal, and it’s definitely to a person that I’ve sung many, many songs about. It’s funny, because the lyric is, “I left out on the road eight years ago, and you left too, but I never really thought you would leave.”
At the time it was eight years. N...