Driving on the Dark side of the Road

 

Well, you should know me by now, there should be no wondering why or cry

No matter how hard we tried, it will never make it right and we will never do it right

I woke up at the crack of dawn, with a rooster crowing in the dark some distance far away

Waiting for me to softly close the backdoor, and never looking back anymore,

I had nothing else to say, and if you look out of your window, I will be gone forever,

Never looking back, just leaving you a note on the kitchen counter,

Telling you gently, I will be moving on and follow those lonely railroad tracks

 

Turning on the car lights, as I glide silently out of the driveway, I shed a solo tear

Slowly, I turned around to see if you are there looking out the window, but nobody is there

Not a light is on in the house, and nobody cares as I glance once more in the rearview mirror

And as I put my head down in despair, I gaze up to the stars up in the sky, breathing the cold dry morning air, thinking again of hiding from the light

 

I wondered why we always changed our minds, I wondered why we could never see the light

If we don’t know by now babe, we will never know why, I drive on the dark side of the road

I wish there was something I could say, I wish you would call out my name but it is never the same

But I also wish you knew what I was thinking, and that it’s not at all what you make it out to be

You just want us to be lovers, you want us to pretend it’s all bright and light

But I just want to be free and stay away from the fright of seeing the light

 

But the truth be told, we never did talk too much, and we never did see the light

As you tried to change me, I offered to stay but you pushed me away, as we often fight

You didn’t like what I was thinking, so it could never be the same as we never shared the road

The light I never knew, living on the dark side of the road, was what set me free

It aint no use pretending babe, even as you turn on your light to make it bright, it could never be, the same for you and me

There is nothing you can say that makes it right, there is nothing you can do to make it bright

So pretending seems just like a waste of precious time, a time that has been so unkind

And as I drive off into the darkness, I hear you calling my name, but it’s just the same

As we never did talk too much anyways, we never got used to calling each other names and giving ourselves a chance to be one of the same

 

Where I am bound, it has no name, where I end up is all the same

I could have done better, I could have done it right, but then I would have left the dark and come into the light

From the dark end of the road, never wandering into the bright, I felt secured and tight

We never learned to share the load, we never knew what it was like to live in the light

It seems it was the life I was born with, it seems that I was always denied the light, but regardless how it ended, I always seemed to drive off in the middle of the night

 

But driving on the dark side of the road, allowed me a chance to learn and keep my heart light  

There was less fear of doing it right, and get away from this life I was born with, as time passed so quickly avoiding the light

And my love disappeared within the twinkling of an eye, let’s just enjoy it before we say goodbye, as it was never meant to be to stand out in the light

 

From the dark end of the road I can see much better, I can never do wrong, just get it right

From the bright side of the road, the future is not so bright or kind to me, so it seems a fright

And if I can’t find someone to share a song with, then let me by content and drive all night on the darker side of the road,

Where time stands still, and the moon is bright, leaving me alone again, but with the memory of our last time making love in the middle of the night