Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian has described this song as an optional coda to the album, and that it also functions as a capstone and conceptual centerpiece for the record, addressing most of the major themes and epitomizing the iconic languid weariness of Welch’s Revelator period.
I realized that everything this record...
[Refrain 1]
Oh I dream a highway back to you, love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and rest my soul
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 1]
John, he's kicking out the footlights
The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand new band
Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 2]
I think I'll move down into Memphis
And thank the hatchet man who forked my tongue
I lie and wait until the wagons come
And dream a highway back to you
[Verse 3]
The getaway kicking up cinders
An empty wagon full of rattling bones
Moon in the mirror on a three-hour jones
I dream a highway back to you
[Refrain 2]
Oh I dream a highway back to you, love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come arrest my soul
And I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 4]
Which lover are you, Jack of Diamonds?
Now you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram
I'll send a letter, don't know who I am
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 5]
I'm an indisguisable shade of twilight
Any second now, I'm gonna turn myself on
In the blue display of the cool cathode ray
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 6]
I wish you knew me, Jack of Diamonds
Fire-riding, wheeling when I laid 'em up
Drank whiskey with my water, sugar with my tea
My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags
I dream a highway back to you
[Refrain 3]
Oh I dream a highway back to you, love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision convalesced my soul
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 7]
Now give me some of what you're having
I'll take you as a viper into my head
A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed
And I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 8]
Hang overhead from all directions
Radiation from the porcelain light
Blind and blistered by the morning white
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 9]
Sunday morning at the diner
Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
I watched the waitress for a thousand years
Saw a wheel inside a wheel, heard a call within a call
And I dreamed a highway back to you
[Refrain 4]
Oh I dream a highway back to you, love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision convalesced my soul
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 10]
Step into the light, poor Lazarus
Don't lie alone behind the window shade
Let me see the mark death made
And I dream a highway back to you
I dream a highway back to you
[Verse 11]
What will sustain us through the winter?
Where did last year's lessons go?
Walk me out into the rain and snow
I dream a highway back to you
[Refrain 5]
Oh I dream a highway back to you, love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my soul
I dream a highway back to you
I dream a highway back to you
[Refrain 6]
Oh I dream a highway back to you, love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my soul
I dream a highway back to you
I Dream a Highway was written by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings.
I Dream a Highway was produced by David Rawlings.
Gillian Welch released I Dream a Highway on Tue Jul 31 2001.