Carolina highway, past boroughs and pine breaks
The road long behind me, every signpost reminds me
My eyes have grown heavy, my wheels drone on steady
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
I been here forever, my whole life at least.
Trapped between morning optimism and night fleeting dreams.
Here where it matters, where reality looms
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
This road was a drug when I started way back
Each hill that I killed was like a pill that I took to relax.
Till the peace in the valleys, got a little too peaceful
All the ridges I run and all that I done
has left me with eyes full.
Eyes full of the worst, eyes full of the best
Eyes full of the tiredness that won let me rest.
All the places I go to, no place is brand new
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus
Some people sit still, some people go fast
Some go right to it, some never get past
Laying a map out, they don plan just assume.
And wind up forever in the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus
Here where it matters, where reality looms
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.