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Lyrics:

Off past the Greenway
Beyond Demonbreun and Broadway
Pass Union Station in a sad parade
And take the ramp to 65

Such familiar landscape
Check the rearview as the skyline fades
The clouds are indigo and the sky is gray
The morning frost is ghostly white

You’re heading down that hateful highway
I failed to love you in the right way
I had it all but let it slip away
Too young to know to hold on tight

Eroded makeup in your compact
Stolen blushes like a lesson learned
Beneath a layer of foundation
(A loose interpretation of that term)
And looking back it was a fool’s dream
Starting over in a place like this
It started feeling like a jailhouse
Or a tourniquet around your wrist

Clearing out the old place
Those same initials on your suitcase
Already going by your maiden name
No need to change the label twice

I thought I needed change
I knew the rules but played the wrong game
My restless heart produced some bad mistakes
I took us far beyond that line

And sent you down that hateful highway
I failed to love you in the right way
I had it all but let it slip away
Too young to know to hold on tight

Sometimes you’re needing something easy
But nothing’s easy when you’re upside down
And underwater a mortgage
You want to float away before you drown
It can leave you feeling crazy
Faking laughter like a birthday clown
Although you’re beaten like a bad drum
And wearing credit like a plastic crown

I never meant to cause a bad love
I never meant to ever let you down
I never meant to cause a bad love but you’re heading down that hateful highway

And I’ll follow down this hateful highway
I’ll try to love you in the right way
I’ll conjure love upon this glory day
And lead you back into my life
I don’t believe in last goodbyes

Words and music by M. Fielden, copyright 2016. All rights reserved.