On The Road

There's a sad, young wife

Never had a life

Her mother said she'd married young

And her husband's a fool

Never listened to

All the things she's never done

So she packs up that ol' Ford Fairlane

She's had about all she can bear

A suitcase, a hope, and a hard rain

She's gonna find it all somewhere

On the road

Where the night is black

On the road

Where you don't look back

There's a white line in the distance

Where it's goin' nobody knows

If it's anywhere, you'll find it

On the road

There's a teenage kid

No matter what he did

Nobody ever understands

And he don't measure up

And he's had enough

Can't be his Daddy's little man

So he pulls out that hot rod Chevy

Puts in his favorite cassette

He ain't goin' to no college

The world is waitin' up ahead

On the road

Where the night is black

On the road

Where you don't look back

There's a white line in the distance

Where it's goin' nobody knows

If it's anywhere, you'll find it

On the road

Eddie and Jill got time to kill

The kids, they never come around

And a gold-plated watch was all he got

When the company shut his life down

So he takes down that old Airstream

They don't know where they're bound

Sixty five years and still searching

For somethin' that they never found

On the road

Where the night is black

On the road

Where you don't look back

There's a white line in the distance

Where it's goin' nobody knows

If it's anywhere, you'll find it

On the road

On the road

On the road