Heat of the Wide Afternoon

Carolina highway, past boroughs and pines
Grace the roads right behind me
Every sign post reminds me
My eyes have grown heavy
My wheels drone on steady yeah
In the heat of the wide
The heat of the wide
The wide afternoon

I've been here forever
My whole life at least
Trapped between morning's optimism
And nights fading gray haze
Here where it matters
Where reality looms
In the heat of the wide
The heat of the wide
The wide afternoon

This road was a drug
When I started way back
Each hill that I killed
Was like a pill that I took to relax
Oh the peace in the valleys
Got a little too peaceful
All the ridges I run
And all that I done
Has left me with eyes full
Eyes full of the worst
Eyes full of the best
Eyes full of the tires
Won't that be rest
All the places I go to
No place is brand new
In the heat of the wide
The heat of the wide
The wide afternoon

I've been here forever
My whole life at least
Trapped between morning's optimism
And nights fading gray haze
Here where it matters
Where reality looms
In the heat of the wide
The heat of the wide
The wide afternoon

Some people sit still
Some people go fast
Some go right to it
Some never get past
Layin' a map out
They don't plan just assume
And wind up forever
In the heat of the wide
The wide afternoon

I've been here forever
My whole life at least
Trapped between morning's optimism
And nights fading gray haze
Here where it matters
Where reality looms
In the heat of the wide
The heat of the wide
The wide afternoon

Here where it matters
Where reality looms
In the heat of the wide
The heat of the wide
The wide afternoon