The song is about driving north in Ontario, up into the Canadian Shield. The “dynamite walls” are the rock faces on either side of the small highways and roadways made by dynamite blasting so the roads could go through.
Open your eyes
Put it in drive
Get on the road and just go
City lights
Turn to tree lines
And national park signs
Mountains approach
With small winds in the road
And the air turns to falling snow
Miles away just up ahead
It doesn't matter what
Any of us is looking for
We'll never find it because
It's not even there
High beams showing
Falling rock warning
Construction work, slowing
The engine blazes
The elevation raises
The dynamite walls contain us
Everyone's watching
For animals crossing
Through the part of the glass
That's defrosted
Miles away or just up ahead
It doesn't matter what
Any of us is looking for
We'll never find it because
It's not even there
Open your eyes
Put it in drive
Get on the road and just go
City lights
Turn into tree lines
And National Park signs
Mountains approach
With small winds in the road
And the air turns to falling snow
The engine blazes
The elevation raises
The dynamite walls contain us
Dynamite Walls was written by Paul Hayden Desser.
Dynamite Walls was produced by Hayden.
Hayden released Dynamite Walls on Thu Oct 18 2001.