Ticking

(So like that?)

I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world

I love you and I'm willing but I cannot keep you girl

Philly by the morning and Ohio by the night

The thing about a long road is you can't hold on too tight

On wooden floors and coffee cups

Stepped on and all used up

But I reckon that's what mornings are for

And everyone thinks they know me now, in these

Closed-minded leave-me towns

But I'm too young to even know myself

'Cause wheels running down

The interstate

Oh, Lord I'll wait

Another day

'Cause I ain't close to you

This time, ticking, on the interstate

And Lord I hate

That I ain't close to you

And all my friends have moved away

Some got jobs and some got saved

They talk to me like I'm still that kid

The fighting, fiendin' Okie sun

The restless, reckless hopeful one

Who once was proud of everything he did

Do you remember 25?

Long legs and loving time

Seems like ten lifetimes ago

I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world

I love you and I'm willing, but I

Really have to go

Cause wheels running down the interstate

Oh, Lord I'll wait

Another day

'Cause I ain't close to you

This time, ticking, on the interstate

I'm fightin' fate

And Lord I hate

That I ain't close to you

I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world

I love you and I'm willing, but I cannot keep you girl

Philly by the morning and Ohio by the night

The thing about high hopes is you can't hold on too tight