Refuge Of The Roads Lyrics

I met a friend of spirit, he drank and womanized
And I sat before his sanity, I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications, and he mirrored me back, simplified
And we laughed how our perfection would always be denied
"Heart and humour and humility"
He said, "will lighten up your heavy load"
I left him then for the refuge of the roads

I fell in with some drifters, cast upon a beach town
Winn-Dixie cold cuts and highway hand-me-downs
And I wound up fixing dinner for them and Boston Jim
I well up with affection thinking back down the roads to then
The nets were overflowing in the Gulf of Mexico
They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads

There was spring along the ditches
There were good times in the cities
Oh, radiant happiness, it was all so light and easy
′Til I started analyzing, and I brought on my old ways
A thunderhead of judgment was gathering in my gaze
And it made most people nervous, they just didn't want to know
What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads

I pulled off into the forest, crickets clicking in the ferns
Like a wheel of fortune, I heard my fate turn, turn, turn
And I went running down a white sand road
I was running like a white-assed deer
Running to lose the blues to the innocence in here
These are the clouds of Michelangelo, muscular with gods and sungold
Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads

In a highway service station, over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth, taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn′t see a city on that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest, or a highway, or me here, least of all
You couldn't see these cold-water restrooms or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling, taking refuge in the roads