Nowhere Road (video)

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1. There's a road, in Oklahoma,

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straighter than a preacher, longer than a memory.

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And it goes forever onward,

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been a good teacher for a lot of country boys like me.

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2. I push that load, from here to someday,

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I'll push as long as I'm alive but I don't know how long I'll last.

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'Cause it's just a road, it ain’t no highway,

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I'm blowing by the double five, I know I'm going way too fast.

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I been down this road just searching for the end,

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it don't go nowhere, it just brings you back again.

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Leaves you lonely and cold, standin' on the shoulder,

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but you've come too far to go back home,

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so you're walking on a nowhere road.

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3. Some folks say, if you keep rollin'

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and you keep it on the yellow line, it'll take you to the big highway.

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But there's a toll to pay, if you're going,

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the keeper of the gate is blind so you better be prepared to pay.

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(orig. = capo 1st; cover = no capo) (Steve Earle)