Dearly Departed Lyrics

Red sun lying low beyond the highway's end

Another town comes and goes

There's another empty stretch

Home is never closer than the day you started

When you headed down the road of the dearly departed

From the sizzle of white noise a song begins to form

A word or two breaks through

Like lightnin' from a storm

You tune the radio to frequencies uncharted

Listening for the voices of the dearly departed

There is a lonesome sound in the music of the wheels

I don't know what it means

But I know the way it feels

It's telling me the story of the broken-hearted

Chasing after faces of the dearly departed

Somewhere in the desert the radio goes quiet

It's hard to find the words

But you know you can't deny it

It's a place among the stars, nothing can harm it

It is the sanctuary of the dearly departed

So do not fear the future you have yet to visit

Don't fear the unfamiliar

Or ask yourself "what is this?"

The headlights light the highway

And the rest is darkness

When you're headed down the road of the dearly departed