Ronnie James Ingals - Mother Road Blues Lyrics

Last night my wife called me to say
She wouldn't be coming home for dinner
She's working overtime again
And I noticed she's getting thinner
And my job will be ending soon
The company's moving to Mexico
The shareholders seek maximum gains
While the rest of us have nowhere to go
And like ole Route 66, bypassed by the progress
Life's moving too fast for me
They use you and they throw you away
There's something better in yesterday
There's something better in yesterday
Another corner store is closing down
Another chain store's movin' in
Another novelty store's disappeared
Another gentrification to begin
And the movie theaters are getting bigger and louder
Like the stadiums all with corporate names
We go on cheering the glittery winners
While most of us keep losing in this game
And like ole Route 66, bypassed by the progress
Life's moving too fast for me
They use you and they throw you away
There's something better in yesterday
There's something better in yesterday
I finally got my long-waited vacation
To visit friends out in Nashville
Racing through the 10, the 15 and the 40
I made good time cutting through the hills
We ate, we drank, we told our old stories
Went to the honky-tonks, the ballgame and all that
Before I knew, my time was up
I made it back to L.A. in just two days flat
And like ole Route 66, bypassed by the progress
Life's moving too fast for me
They use you and they throw you away
There's something better in yesterday
There's something better in yesterday
The other day my neighbor's car had broken down
I stopped to help cuz I know he'd do the same
We looked at each other rather vaguely
We realized we didn't know each other's name
And like ole Route 66, bypassed by the progress
Life's moving too fast for me
They use you and they throw you away
There's something better in yesterday
There's something better in yesterday
There's something better in yesterday