Long Way-Antje Duvekot

[ti:Long Way] [ar:Antje Duvekot] [al:The Near Demise of the Highwir] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Long Way - Antje Duvekot [00:13.33]We bid our friends goodbye [00:16.32]We promised we would write them [00:19.13]And headed north up ninty five [00:22.50] [00:25.38]Into the great unknown [00:27.12] [00:27.81]We turned up our stereo [00:29.37]And felt so reckless and alive [00:36.79]We didn't know who we would be [00:39.35]We didn't know where we would end up [00:42.97]When we headed down that road [00:45.59] [00:47.59]A little food and our guitars [00:50.58]In the backseat and that old cello [00:54.14]The one that would get stolen [00:57.14]In a town in Idaho [00:59.13]And it's a long way to Michigan and back [01:04.56]And it's a long way [01:10.55]Cause it's a long way the clouds upon our backs [01:16.48]And it's a long long long long way [01:22.29] [01:23.66]And I have never seen [01:26.47]Reflections of the cleanest [01:29.15]Of blue as the Minnesota lakes [01:34.45]Those were the longest nights [01:37.01]Of wood smoke and northern lights [01:40.07]As we talked until the morning came [01:44.19] [01:46.99]The light of glowing embers [01:49.68]As sweet as I remember [01:52.74]Among the rustling of the trees [01:56.17] [01:57.91]The legend of the harvest moon [02:01.22]And sweet ballad of the loon [02:03.59] [02:04.65]I felt as ancient as I was meant to be [02:09.65]And it's a long way to Washington and back [02:15.08]And it's a long way [02:20.94]Cause it's a long way the clouds upon our backs [02:26.62]And it's a long long long long way [02:33.48] [03:05.44]I called you from a payphone [03:06.87]In windy cold Missoula [03:08.74]And then from Midland in the rain [03:14.85]A place as proud and sad as [03:17.47]The South Dakota badlands [03:20.72]It touched me more than I could explain [03:26.84]The dirt poor reservation [03:29.21]Where the Avala nation [03:32.21]Tries to hang on to its ways [03:37.57]Feather and peyote pipe and [03:40.51]A six pack of miller light [03:43.62]Sits on the dashboard of a beat up Chevrolet [03:48.99]And it's a long way to tennessee and back [03:54.48]And it's a long way [03:59.85] [04:00.91]Cause it's a long way on the worn out heels of Kerouac [04:06.34]And it's a long long long long way [04:10.58] [04:13.45]Out in California [04:16.20]We touched the other ocean [04:19.19]And I still have that jar of sand [04:25.24]In the Arizona desert [04:27.61]The sky goes on forever [04:30.73]You've never seen a thing as grand [04:35.54] [04:36.98]And North Montana was cold [04:39.35]She keeps her secrets frozen [04:42.59]Under glaciers way up north [04:46.15] [04:48.02]And people have got lost up there [04:50.84]In the home of the grizzly bear [04:53.63]And you can ask the mountain [04:57.25]But the mountain doesn't care [04:59.19]And it's a long way to Delaware and back [05:04.74]And it's a long way [05:09.48] [05:10.80]Cause it's a long way the clouds up on our backs [05:16.47]And it's a long long long long way [05:20.59] [05:22.59]Cause it's a long way on the worn out heels of Kerouac [05:28.71]And it's a long long long long way