Edmund Snyder - Blacktop River Lyrics

There's a drumbeat in the distance with a message loud and clear
Smoke on the horizon--words you always want to hear
The birds are chirping in the trees, their song a secret code--
It's time to pack your bags, my dear, and hit the open road.
The blacktop river, she's a-callin' us away.
I can't see any reason we should stay.
The world out there has magic to make you shiver
So it's time to say goodbye and find our way--on that blacktop river.
There's an aching in your heart, a desire to be free
A deep and mighty chasm in our darkest memory
But light is giggling through the sky--a sweet periphery
It's time to grab your bug-out, babe, and see the world with me.
The blacktop river, she's a-callin' us away.
And there isn't anything here that could make us stay.
All the wonders of the world will make us shiver.
Now it's time to find our way and say goodbye--on the blacktop river.
There's something that you need to know
We do it now, or we'll never go
Trapped in routine
We'll never get away.
Stuck like this forever, stay, stay, stay.
The blacktop river, she's a-callin' us away.
I can't see any reason we should stay.
The world out there has magic to make you shiver
So it's time to say goodbye and find our way--on that blacktop river.
The blacktop river, she's a-callin' us away.
And there isn't anything here that could make us stay.
All the wonders of the world will make us shiver.
Now it's time to find our way and say goodbye--on the blacktop river.