Scenes From Highways 1981-2009 Lyrics - Rooms Of The House - La Dispute

I let the car drift some 

Eye your uncomfortable pose in profile 

The postures of long drives 

That endless cycling of your numb and near sleeping parts 

And you lean much harder than you need when the road curves 

Swerve through traffic and the cracks in the ground 

Every gesture you require of a drive like this night 

When you fight now you just head out of town 

I let the wheel go over center lines 

Inside a place without time, a loop through history 

Eye you in periphery now prone in the passenger seat 

It's a mystery the ways you can sleep 

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I want to leave here for where nobody goes 

I want to breathe in the air of all those sprawling ancient spaces on earth 

You said we're so scared of alone and I knew what you meant 

You want to go where it glows all those places where your watch doesn't work 

You were riding those nights on the highway always hiding out inside a songwriter's dream there 

Like a scene from a song, "Born to Run," or maybe "Running on Empty" 

Ones where they would leave 

Certain nights when you'd fight you couldn't stick around 

So you'd head out of town 

Just hit the highway and drive 

Certain nights when you'd fight it was fine 

But it shook you when the baby would cry 

Why did you always turn around in the end? 

To hear the shattering of glass on the door again? 

So loud the baby couldn't sleep anymore? 

What didn't you find that you were looking for? 

Photos 

Your mother called a hardware 

Set you up an interview 

An answer to an ad 

The bosses' daughter still remembers dinner where her father said 

He wouldn't stick his neck out for trouble again 

But they did then 

And those days you'd wake up and just decide you wouldn't show 

He'd show up at your door 

Nights you'd skip town 

He'd follow you out 

Pretty soon you started falling for their daughter 

And she fell for you 

Drive roll every window down 

Let the desert enter heavy and primitive in 

Drift till rumble strips sound 

Time moves so slow but I know that you meant what you said 

You want to go where it's frozen 

All those places where the highways don't reach 

You want to go where it glows 

Somewhere that time is irrelevant 

You want to go where it glows 

Somewhere the spaces are infinite 

You want to go where it glows 

Somewhere you don't feel the hours pass by 

You identified the flowers on the road 

I rolled the windows down and shut off the radio 

Did you ever think you'd end up here 

All those late nights you spent driving alone? 

You were riding to hide or you were looking for a brand new life 

Did you ever think you'd find one back home? 

Did you even think you'd get out alive? 

Could you imagine then the love you now know? 

I think history's a system of roads and there's nowhere it doesn't go 

I pulled over to the side and felt no time 

Off the highway with the landscape aglow 

Still not sure what we were trying to find 

I only know we went home