backroad Lyrics

I was driving home on the backroads

I was trying to keep my profile low

If they tracked me down in Calamassus town

God knows what I would have blown

In the headlights on the horizon

I saw a fox on the side of the road

Poor little fella must have had a full header

With a semi on a heavy load

Out on the backroad

In the headlights

Bet you never knew your future could shine too bright

Where there's no law, there's no crime

You're not gonna meet no Mr. bigtime

Laying low

Out on the backroads

As I drove the car a little closer

I saw that fox, he was still alive

Poor little fella, in pain I could tella

By the look in his 2 blue eyes

I just couldn't let the little guy suffer

I just couldn't drive on that night

I reversed the car on the cold black tar

And lined up my wheel just right

Out on the backroad

In the headlights

Bet you never knew your future could shine too bright

Where there's no law, there's no crime

You're never gonna change your mind

When you're laying low

Out on the backroad

Later that night the strangest dream came to me

I dreamt the ghost of jim morrison floating above the gates of the pere lachaise

And the strangest thing about the whole affair was that

I was the only one there and that ghost

Had the very same eyes as the fox

He said get up get out and make something of yourself

And if you don't like you go be someone else

But don't be a slave to the money and the drugs

And wind up waiting tables at the 27 club

See we all got it wrong back in the summer of love

That was just a bumper sticker someone made up

To sell cheap souvenir mugs

At the woodstock hotel

Out on the backroad

In the headlights

Bet you never knew your future could shine too bright

Where there's no law, there's no crime

You're never gonna change your mind

When you're laying low

Out on the backroads