Enough to Be On Your Way

So the sun shines on this funeral

Just the same as on a birth

The way it shines on everything

That happens here on Earth

It rolls across the western sky

And back into the sea

And spends the days' last rays

Upon this fucked-up family

So long old pal

The last time I saw Alice

She was leaving Santa Fe

With a bunch of round-eyed Buddhists

In a killer Chevrolet

Said they turned her out of Texas

Yeah, she burned 'em down back home

Now she's wild with expectation

On the edge of the unknown singing

Oh, it's enough to be on your way

It's enough to cover ground

It's enough to be moving on

Home, build it behind your eyes

Carry it in your heart

Safe among your own

They brought her back on a Friday night

Same day I was born

We sent her up the smoke stack

Yes, and back into the storm

She blew up over the San Juan Mountains

She spent herself at last

The threat of heavy weather

That was what she knew the best

Oh, it's enough to be on your way

It's enough just to cover ground

It's enough to be moving on

Home, better build it behind your eyes

Carry it in your heart

Safe among your own

It woke me up on a Sunday

An hour before the sun

It had me watching the headlights

Out on highway 591

'Til I stepped into my trousers

'Til I pulled my big boots on

I walked out on the mesa

And I stumbled on this song

Oh, it's enough to be on your way

It's enough to cover ground

It's enough to be moving on

Home, boy, build it behind your eyes

Carry it in your heart

Safe among your own

So long, old gal