God's Own Open Road (Album Version)-Tish Hinojosa

[ti:God's Own Open Road (Album Version)] [ar:Tish Hinojosa] [al:Dreaming From The Labyrinth] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]God's Own Open Road - Tish Hinojosa [00:10.26]Somewhere 'neath the darkened sky a weary heart a lonesome eye [00:15.25]Tracks along an empty highway lead to somewhere else [00:19.45] [00:20.21]All my past and all my wishes tears reflect on muddy ditches [00:25.18]My own mind is searching for an answer [00:28.26]From the eyes that look right back [00:30.57] [00:31.58]I want to know about the outer reaches [00:35.18]Everything that heartbreak teaches [00:37.74]Questions of survival that in every soul exist [00:42.18] [00:42.73]What about the endless sky [00:44.87]A child that wants to know just why [00:47.39]The world spins round and people die [00:50.08]And does it hurt well baby so do I [00:53.96] [01:03.03]Walking on the streets [01:04.35]I've known a city that I once called home [01:07.50]A stranger now another time that doesn't want me back [01:11.86] [01:12.74]Poems in my native tongue whisper where I used to run [01:17.55]The river brushing by a shore that knew it all along [01:21.91] [01:22.80]Here I stood and there I dreamed of future bright as magazines [01:27.62]Without the shades of sorrow in between [01:31.00] [01:32.77]Where we've been and what we've seen [01:35.52]Are we taught or are we teaching [01:37.83]Reaching seeking needing preaching pleading speeding screeching to a halt [01:43.34] [02:03.08]Cattle guards and power lines mark the distance of our times [02:07.58]Like wheels that roll and bells that [02:09.79]Toll of hours and aging wine [02:12.14] [02:12.93]Love we gave and love we made gone astray and then forgave [02:17.95]Naked as a masquerade for truth to figure out [02:22.09] [02:22.89]Voices shout and voices sing words slip out and most stay in [02:27.58]In symphonies that live within the pockets of our soul [02:32.07] [02:32.92]Colors of the open sea paint the [02:35.98]Edges of a dream in crystal blues [02:39.08]And deeper hues of wind and earth and God's own open road