Highway Philosophy Lyrics

My Dad and I were driving trucks

I guess I was still fifteen

I don't know where we were going

Or even where we had been

But as my Dad stared at the horizon

And out where the road was taking us

Without even looking my way

He said there is something we will discuss

I know you don't like the same as me

And that is always perfectly fine

But in the interests of your happiness

I want to share my mind

The only things you need in life

Are simple and never hard

You need the love of a partner

And a solid built, fast car

You will have to get a best mate

And always look for friends that are true

But most of all you will need, my son

Is a concrete sense of You

He lapsed into a silence

But I knew his words profound

I thought I could see his sense

A sense of truth in him I found

I never thought of my Dad

As a philosophical sort of soul

But admit I had never seen him sad

I had never thought about his goals

There was a deeper feeling

To those words that he did share

Like a layer laid unpeeling

And a tiny secret he laid bare

The only things you need in life

Are simple and never hard

You need the love of a partner

And a solid built, fast car

You will have to get a best mate

And always look for friends that are true

But most of all you will need, my son

Is a concrete sense of You

We continued down the highway

A destination not in sight

I did my life all my way

But in his words, I saw some light

I have taken from my Father

His sense of wrong and what is right

In his simple choice of words

He lives on in me alright

The only things you need in life

Are simple and never hard

You need the love of a partner

And a solid built, fast car

You will have to get a best mate

And always look for friends that are true

But most of all you will need, my son

Is a concrete sense of You

Get a concrete sense of You!