[Intro]
I was in the winter of my life ? and the men I met along the road were my only
summer. At night I fell asleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and
crying with them. Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour
and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real
happy times. I was a singer, not a very popular one, who once had dreams of
becoming a beautiful poet ? but upon an unfortunate series of events, saw
those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I
wished on over and over again ? sparkling and broken. But I didn?t really
mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then
losing it to know what true freedom is.
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been
living ? they asked me why. But there?s no use in talking to people who have
a home, they have no idea what it?s like to seek safety in other people, for
home to be wherever you lie your head.
I was always an unusual girl, my mother told me I had a chameleon soul. No moral
compass pointing due north, no fixed personality. Just an inner indecisiveness
that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. And if I said that I didn?t
plan for it to turn out this way, I?d be lying ? because I was born to be
the other woman. I belonged to no one ? who belonged to everyone, who had
nothing ? who wanted everything with a fire for every experience and an
obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn?t even talk
about ? and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and
dizzied me.
[Chanson]
I've been out on that open road
You can be my full time, daddy
White and gold
Singing blues has been getting old
You can be my full time, baby
Hot or cold
Don't break me down
I've been traveling too long
I've been trying too hard
With one pretty song
I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride
Just ride, I just ride, I just ride
Dying young and I'm playing hard
That's the way my father made his life an art
Drink all day and we talk 'til dark
That's the way the road doves do it, ride 'til dark.
Don't leave me now
Don't say good bye
Don't turn around
Leave me high and dry
I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been tryin' hard not to get in trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
I just ride
Just ride, I just ride, I just ride
I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy
I'm tired of driving 'till I see stars in my eyes
I look up to hear myself saying,
Baby, too much I strive, I just ride
I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been tryin' hard not to get in trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
I just ride
Just ride, I just ride, I just ride..
[Final]
Every night I used to pray that I?d find my people ? and finally I did ?
on the open road. We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired
anymore ? except to make our lives a work of art.
Live fast. Die Young. Be Wild. And Have Fun.
I believe in the country America used to be. I believe in the person I want to
become.
I believe in the freedom of the open road. And my motto is the same as ever ?
I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I?m at war with myself ? I
ride. I just ride.
Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you
created a life for yourself where you?re free to experience them? I have. I am
fucking crazy. But I am free.
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