Wrote this song in a notebook on a steering wheel while driving on I-80 through Nebraska. Born and raised in Wisconsin and spending most my time in the Colorado area for a good few years, I did a lot of driving by myself with nothing but CD's, cassettes and thoughts to listen to. Still do on a good day. But back then I was doing a lot of that, and adventuring as much as I could wherever it was just for the sake of experience.
Around the time my hometown childhood buddy gave me a burned CD that said, "Todd Snider, Near Truths and Hotel Rooms".
Played since 2012
lyrics
Play the cassette again and again
Notes played words said,
“Listen to your friends”
I haven’t met many of them yet, yet
Their company I enjoy best
As I drive I-80 west,
I am comin’ from the east
And I’m feelin’ oh so blessed and at peace.
I got Grateful Dead and Bobby D on cassette,
Janis, Jimi, Jerry, Bradley and Mr. Marley on CD.
Well I’ll drive all night, and I’ll drive all day.
Ain’t gonna stop ‘til I park in the driveway.
And I’ll drive all night and I’ll drive until the end,
Oh but this road don’t know nothin’ bout that,
So it goes,
Hot coffee and salt on my tongue
Singed off all of my taste buds.
And the smoke that I throw down my throat into my lungs
Comes from Colorado’s finest homegrown buds.
Well I’ve been through lust and I’ve been through love,
Took advantage and been taken advantage of,
But there’s nothing like those hometown buds!
Friends ‘til the end,
don’t know won’t say,
when I’ll be back here again.
And yes I too “Love and miss you”
Beer here, cheers, let’s promise, and never forget
To make new memories while we reminisce about what it was like
When we were kids..
Let’s be kids again.
See this world, it is one big playground.
Mountains to climb and plenty of ground to play on.
There’s rivers and lakes and valleys and streams.
Small spread-out towns or big compact cities.
It’s all right here under your feet,
So come-on let’s play some hide and seek.
I’ll find you when you find me. w
Might be in the rainforest or in a jungle of trees
Might be, on the shoreline or be swimmin’ in the deep.
All I can say is that “This land is no man’s,
and I’m damn glad that I chose to be a nomad.”
“Cause your as free as you want to be and man,
your as free as you want to be and man,
Your as free as you want to be and man,
I’m as free as I want to be.
Chorus (Drive all night…)
This road don’t know nothin’ about needin’ a tank of gas.
This road don’t know nothin’ about needin’ to read a map.
This road don’t know nothin’ about needin’ a nap.
No no, this road don’t know none of that.
Nebraska, Alaska and even Africa
Tennessee, Twin Cities or in the Middle East,
All I can say is that
“This land is no man’s and
man I’m damn glad that I chose to be a nomad.”
credits
from I AM,
track released December 18, 2017
Eric Labrosse at Cherry Pit Studios
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