[Album] Exit 73 - Jackson Browne Inspired | 70s Road-Worn Soft Rock

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:12]Sing me a parking lot la underneath a flickering [music] neon [singing] sky.

[00:00:24][music] Every engine humming low.

[00:00:27][singing] Goodbye.

[00:00:30][music] >> Every heart a runway, every road [singing] to life.

[00:00:38]Sing me a parking lot [music] back.

[00:00:43]Tell me rest ain't [music] just a rumor in the night. [singing] [music] Tell me rest ain't just a rumor in the night.

[00:00:57]Headlights on [music] the curtain, slow as a sign.

[00:01:06]Yeah.

[00:01:08][music] The ice [music] machine is humming like a quiet down the hall.

[00:01:22]And the [music] laughter through the wallpaper sounds like someone I used to [music] call.

[00:01:28]I [singing] was trying to write a love song on the back of a receipt.

[00:01:35]But [music] every line keeps turning into exit signs and empty streets. Oh, every line leaving [music] every word of retreat and tenderness gets heavier the longer that you drive.

[00:01:55]It's hard to hold a candle [music and singing] when you're trying to stay alive. Sing me a parking lot by underneath [music] a flickering neon sky.

[00:02:13]Every engine humming low goodbye.

[00:02:16][music] Oh, every heart runway.

[00:02:22]Every road [music] lie.

[00:02:26]Sing me a parking lot. [music] Tell me rest [music] ain't just a rumor in the night.

[00:02:39]>> [music] [music] >> There's a suitcase [music] by the doorway that I never fully unpack.

[00:02:58]Like a [music] promise to myself, I'll be the kind of man who don't look back.

[00:03:05]And the [music] AC keeps [singing] on breathing. Like a tight old friend of mine, keeping time with all [singing and music] the questions that I never had the time to find.

[00:03:20][music] Never had the time, never drew the line.

[00:03:29]Is [music] rest a place you get to or a story that [singing and music] we tell?

[00:03:36]Some bell we hear ringing from the bottom of a [singing and music] well.

[00:03:43]I've been chasing my own tail lights down a highway in my chest. And the only thing that's [music] certain is I [singing] haven't found it yet. No, I haven't found it yet.

[00:04:00]Sing me a parking lot.

[00:04:03][music and singing] underneath a flickering neon [singing] sky.

[00:04:13]Heavy engine humming low. Goodbye.

[00:04:18]Oh, [music] every heart runway. [singing] Every road [music] lie.

[00:04:26]Sing me a parking lot. [music] Tell me rest ain't [music and singing] just a rumor in the night.

[00:04:38]M Tell me [music] rest ain't just a rumor in the night.

[00:04:45]Oh. [music] Oh.

[00:04:55][music] Oh. [singing] I'll be gone by morning.

[00:05:02]Same as [music] all the rest.

[00:05:06]Cars all aimed at somewhere.

[00:05:09]Hearts [music] all packed and pressed.

[00:05:12]M. Sing it soft, sing it [music] low.

[00:05:17]Sing me something I can take with me [singing] when I go.

[00:05:24]When I go [music] m [music] >> [music] [music] >> is the routine just a softer kind of cage.

[00:05:57]Oh, [music] tell me now.

[00:06:00]A familiar little doorway on a [music and singing] familiar little stage.

[00:06:09]She pours [music] me one more cup and says the road brings us around.

[00:06:16][music] But around to what? And who's still [music] waiting when the wheel sets down.

[00:06:25][music] Booth by the window.

[00:06:29]Neon huming low. [music] One more. Thank you, man.

[00:06:34]Pen on a napkin. [music] Miles still to go.

[00:06:52]She's got a [music] name tag and a tied little [singing] grin, a wedding band she spins around her finger like it's thinking. I told her how the [music and singing] crowd had been a thousand strong last night. And I woke up alone and couldn't quite remember [music and singing] why. Yeah, I know.

[00:07:11]She nodded like she'd heard it all before. Said, "Honey, [music] every traveler comes walking through that door. And the math of it don't add applause and [music] empty rooms. The louder that they love you, the quieter the noon. Ooh, [singing and music] the quieter the noon is the routine. Just a softer kind [music] of cage. Tell me friend, a familiar little doorway [music] on a [singing] familiar little stage.

[00:07:50]She pours [music] me one more cup and says the road brings us around. [music] But around to what? And [music] who's still waiting when the wheel sets down?

[00:08:24]I asked her if she ever thought of leaving [music and singing] here.

[00:08:28]She laughed and said she leaves a little every year. Inside [music] her head, she's been to places I've only sung. She [music] refills the cup and tells me, "Son, you're still young. Am I though?

[00:08:43]There's a [music] jukebox in the corner playing something slow." And I'm starting to confess things that I [singing] didn't know I know.

[00:08:56]What if [music] the wheel keeps turning cuz we're scared to step aside? What if [music] the comfort in returning is a quiet kind of lie? I [music] could pack the same suitcase till the buckles fall apart and call the highway home and call the [music] home [singing] a work of art.

[00:09:19]Is [music] the routine just a softer kind [music] of cage? Look at me.

[00:09:28]A [music] familiar little doorway on a familiar [music] little stage.

[00:09:37]She pours me [music] one more cup and says the road brings us around.

[00:09:46]But around [music] to what? And who's still waiting when the wheel sets down?

[00:10:05]I left a tip beneath the saucer and a question [music] on the side.

[00:10:10]>> Something I can't cash in, something I [music] can't decide.

[00:10:15]>> She waved me through the doorway like she's done a [music] thousand times. And the bell above the door kept asking what [music] was mine.

[00:10:27]What was mine?

[00:10:30]Around [music and singing] and around and around we go.

[00:10:36]Thank you, ma'am. [music] Drive safe now.

[00:10:47]>> [music] [music] [music] >> I'm halfway to anywhere, baby. Halfway gone. Halfway gone. Halfway gone.

[00:11:11][music] Got a tank full of maybe and a head full of dawn.

[00:11:19]But [music] I swear I'll get there soon as I know the name. [music] Soon as I know. But anywhere [singing] and nowhere.

[00:11:30]They sound [music] about the same.

[00:11:34]Yeah. One more cup, one more [singing] mile. [music] >> One more. One more.

[00:11:41]Tell them I'm coming.

[00:11:44]Tell them I'll [music] be a while.

[00:11:50][music] Caught my own face in a backstage [singing] mirror, a borrowed guitar and a stranger's [music] grin. Somebody asked me where I was headed. [music] I said the same thing I always been. Out [music] past the diner where the truckers gather. Coffee black and the jukebox [music] low. A waitress laughed when I tipped my hand. So she'd heard [music] that song a long [singing] time ago. And the rest stopped keeping [music] me honest cuz nobody asked you to stay. The best talks [music] I ever had with anyone happened on the way.

[00:12:38]I'm halfway [music] to anywhere, baby. Halfway gone. Halfway gone. Halfway gone. [music] Got a tank full of maybe and a head full of dawn.

[00:12:53]And I swear I'll get [music] there soon as I know the name. Soon as I know. But [music] anywhere, nowhere, they sound about the same.

[00:13:12]There's a piano [music] somebody left in the lobby. Out of tune like the day I was born.

[00:13:20]I played a song [music] for the nighter smoking and the morning crew that hadn't [music] shown.

[00:13:28]A borrowed shirt and a borrowed reason.

[00:13:31]A map by folded [music and singing] the wrong way twice.

[00:13:35]Every exit looks like a season. Every season asks [music] the same price.

[00:13:45]Maybe the road is a [music] long apology.

[00:13:49]Maybe the wheel is a kind [singing] of prayer.

[00:13:52]>> Kind [music] of pray.

[00:13:54]>> Maybe the friends I keep meeting in motion are the ones I was [music] too still to bear. And I tell them I'm halfway. [music] Halfway.

[00:14:05]>> Halfway there.

[00:14:07]>> Halfway there.

[00:14:09]>> But halfway from what I don't [music] ever quite say.

[00:14:15]I'm halfway to anywhere, [music] baby.

[00:14:18]Halfway gone. Halfway gone. [music] Halfway gone. Got a tank full of maybe and a head full of dawn.

[00:14:30][music] And I swear I'll get there soon as I know the name. [music] >> Soon as I know. But [singing] anywhere, nowhere, they sound about the same. [music] Sound about the same.

[00:14:50]Oh. [music] >> [music] >> So I see you between the places where nobody learns your name.

[00:15:12]>> Learns your [music] name.

[00:15:13]>> And I wonder if anywhere is just another [music] word for the same.

[00:15:20]>> Just another [music] word.

[00:15:23]>> Halfway. Halfway, halfway, >> halfway [music] home, >> halfway.

[00:15:30]>> Or is anywhere just [music] a softer way of saying I'm alone? [music] [music] Empty [music] [music] chair, empty [music] light. Playing for the rose that don't reply tonight. Sing it again.

[00:16:12]Sing it again.

[00:16:16]Till [music] the song forgets the page and starts to fly.

[00:16:23]Empty chairs, empty [music] life. Tell me when the day was real. Tell me how to know. One more [music] time. One more [singing] time. If the best ones are the ones you can't redo.

[00:16:42][music] Rolling in before the doors, [music] cables coiled across the [singing] floor. A piano [music] woman like an engine in the cold.

[00:16:57]Yeah.

[00:17:05][music] The road led us off at the side door this morning. Coffee going cold on the lip of the stage. The drum [music] counts of four and the room comes alive like a [singing] letter you keep meaning to send. I listen for the bar where the song [music] lets go of my hand [singing] where it walks on its own where it doesn't need a plan. There it is, there it goes. And [music] I'm following it home again.

[00:17:35]Repeat it like a prayer [music] you almost mean. Repeat it till the words turn into something new. [music] Almost. Almost. And the meaning shows through.

[00:17:48][music] Empty chest, empty light. Playing for the rose that don't [music] reply. And I sing it again. Sing it again.

[00:18:00]Till the song [music] forgets the page and starts to fly.

[00:18:06]Empty [music] chair, empty life. Tell me when the day [music and singing] was real. Tell me how to know.

[00:18:16]>> One more time. One more [music] time.

[00:18:20]>> If the best ones are the ones you [music and singing] can't reduce.

[00:18:31]I caught myself [music] wishing for a crowd just to prove that the afternoon [singing] happened that we moved [music] a witness for the take will never play the same somebody [music] to remember [singing] our name. The base walks under like a friend who knows the [music] way the slide answers [singing] something I was too tired to say.

[00:18:55][music] Yeah. in the chairs keep their applause for another day. Maybe [music] grace is a thing you rehearse.

[00:19:04]Maybe the second verse is the first.

[00:19:07]>> Sing [music] it through. Sing it through.

[00:19:09]>> Maybe the take that you can't get back is the only one that's [singing] true.

[00:19:16]The room keeps the secret. Like a [music] deep breath after a long drive, the song [singing] wakes [music] up and reminds us we're alive.

[00:19:31]Empty chest, [music] empty life. Playing for the ros that don't [music] reply tonight. Sing it again. Sing it again.

[00:19:41]Till the song [music and singing] forgets the page and starts to fly.

[00:19:47]Empty [music] chair. Empty light. Tell me when the day was real. Tell me how to know.

[00:19:57]>> One [music] more time. One more time.

[00:20:02]>> If the best [music] ones are the ones you can't redo.

[00:20:10]>> So play it for the folding chairs, for the dust [music] above [singing] the lamp. One more pass. One more pass. For the day will never [music] stand.

[00:20:23]Empty lights, empty chairs. The best night [music] might be this one.

[00:20:31]And we'll never know it was [music] till it's gone. Till it's gone. Till it's gone. Till it's gone.

[00:20:46]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Cross keys on the dresser. They don't [singing] open anything I own.

[00:21:11]No, they [music] don't.

[00:21:14]No, they don't.

[00:21:17]Just a room [music] with a number and a phone that never [music] rings home.

[00:21:28]Curtains [music] never closing. Light keeps leaking through the scene.

[00:21:35]And I'm [music] holding what they handed me.

[00:21:40]like it [music] could lock a dream.

[00:21:45]Woke [music] up sideways in a borrowed bed. Yeah. Yeah. [music] Trying to remember what [singing] the night had said.

[00:22:03][music] The carpet keeps the perfume of whoever slept here last. [music] A suitcase full of yesterday's [music] I haven't yet unpacked.

[00:22:17]There's a Bible in the drawer and [music] a stain beside the lamp and a pen that doesn't [music] work from some forgotten riding camp. I tried to call the front desk just to hear [music] another voice.

[00:22:38]She said checkouts at 11 like it wasn't [music] even a choice.

[00:22:45]And the morning came crooked and I let it let it come. [music] Confusion's the one hest thing I [singing] get.

[00:23:00]Cross [music] keys on the dresser. They don't open anything.

[00:23:06]No, they don't.

[00:23:09]No, they don't.

[00:23:13]Just a room with a number and a phone that never rings home.

[00:23:24]Curtains [music] never closing. Light keeps leaking through the scene.

[00:23:30]And I'm [music] holding what they handed me like it could [music] lock a dream.

[00:23:42][music] Then I came [singing] at the door with a paper bag and a grin.

[00:23:48]A friend [music] with bad coffee and a joke I had to let in. Come on in.

[00:23:54][music] He said the world's still turning even from a room like this and the loneliness [music] loosen like a fist becoming a wrist.

[00:24:08]We laughed about the [music] wallpaper, the painting nailed too high and for half a cigarette I forgot [music] the reason why. Maybe comfort isn't permanent.

[00:24:26]Maybe [singing] nothing is.

[00:24:29]Maybe [music] it's a knock that lands the moment [singing] you forget. There's such a thing as this. Such a thing [music] as this. A welltimed interruption from [music] the egg you could name.

[00:24:45]And the keys don't have to open anything [music] to mean the same. Hey, cross [music] keys on the dresser. They don't open anything I own. No, [music] no, they don't.

[00:25:02]No, they don't.

[00:25:06]Just a [music] room with a number and a phone that never rings [music] home.

[00:25:17]Curtains never closing. Light [music] keeps leaking through the seam. Through the seam. And I'm holding what they handed me.

[00:25:29]Like it could lock a dream.

[00:25:34]Like it could lock a dream.

[00:25:41][music] He left the bag. He left the joke.

[00:25:45]He left the door a jar. Left it open.

[00:25:49][music] And I sat there with the keys and the hum of a passing car.

[00:25:56]Wondering [music] if comforts just somebody knocking on time.

[00:26:03]Wondering [music] if anyone's still listening. Down the line.

[00:26:08]>> Down the [music and singing] line.

[00:26:10]>> Down the line.

[00:26:21]fire.

[00:26:23][music] How does a song hold a line that [music] won't bend? Won't bend. Won't bend.

[00:26:35]How does a verse carry [music] weight to the end when the trouble [music] out there doesn't fit [singing] in a rhyme?

[00:26:45]Doesn't fit. Doesn't rhyme.

[00:26:48]>> I'm more afraid of the [music] quiet than the cost of my time.

[00:26:57]Clipboards [music] and cables, a list taped to a wall. One more night.

[00:27:04]Somebody [music] whisper, "We got this, that's all."

[00:27:14][music] Backstage, the runners are taping the floor. [music] Watch your step. Every loose wire is a knock at the door. They [music] move like a prayer [singing] that nobody hears. Nobody hears. trying to [music] keep disaster a little further from here.

[00:27:37]And I think of the towns where the marquee still [music] glows on >> and the speeches on screens that everyone knows [music] while the bill comes ding. Quiet room quieter room. And the people who pay it keep paying [music] in full. And I don't want to sound like I've got it figured out.

[00:27:58]>> No, I don't. But I can't stand still when there's something [music] to shout.

[00:28:02]How does a song hold a line that won't bend, won't bend, won't? [music] How does a verse carry weight to the end?

[00:28:17]When [music] the troll out there doesn't fit in a rhyme, doesn't fit, [music] doesn't rhyme. I'm more afraid of the quiet than the cost.

[00:28:29]My [music] the bass [music] play tunes while the monitor's [singing] home. One, two, one, two. The drummers already [music] counting the drum. And out past the lights, there's a country [music] I love. Country I love. Trying to remember [music] the shape of a night. They sell us the picture. They hand us the frame.

[00:29:09]Hand us the frame. [music] And ask us to thank them for learning [singing] our names. But the [music] cables run under the boards where we stand. Under the boards. And someone [music] keeps taping them down with their hands.

[00:29:27]What [music] does it mean to do the work that you do? What does it mean? Still hear your conscience walk in the [music] room. To play the right note to say the right thing.

[00:29:38]>> Say [singing] the right thing.

[00:29:39]>> Not let the silence finish your sentence [music] for you.

[00:29:44]Oh, not let the silence finish what [music] you began.

[00:29:52]How does a SONG HOLD A LINE that won't bend? Won't bend [music] won't.

[00:30:00]How does a verse carry weight to the end?

[00:30:07]Well, [music] the trouble out there doesn't fit in a rhyme.

[00:30:11]>> Doesn't fit. Doesn't [music] rhyme.

[00:30:14]>> I'm more afraid of the quiet than the cost of my time.

[00:30:19]>> More afraid. [music] more afraid. I'm more afraid of the quiet than the cost of my time. [music] [music] Clipboards and cables, a list on the wall. One [music] more night.

[00:30:42]Somebody's job is [music] to catch what would fall.

[00:30:49]And maybe [music] the song is the rope in my hand. [singing] Rope in my hand.

[00:30:54][music] And maybe the question is all I command.

[00:31:02]All [music and singing] I command. All I command.

[00:31:08][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Ex 73 I watched it go on go [music] the door I didn't open the headlights blow I could have stepped down I could have made [music] the All said I'm staying tonight. Said I'm done with it [music] all.

[00:31:56]Done with it all.

[00:31:59]>> Exit 73.

[00:32:02]Exit 73.

[00:32:05]The road [music] keeps the choice I never made for me.

[00:32:24]The window's cold and the wheels [music] don't slow. There's a sign in the distance. I already know. I pass it [music] so many times in [singing] my head. I made up the kitchen. I've made up a bed. Made it up [music] again.

[00:32:41]There's a phone on a wall in a house. I imagine the porch lights still [music] burning for somebody's plan. And I'm half in the seat and I'm half on the lawn. Half a man arriving, half a man gone in the van. [music] It's a cord like we're flying somewhere. Here it comes.

[00:33:02]But the words in my mouth taste a lot like a prayer. Like [music] maybe like maybe like maybe I should have done what I did when I thought that I [music] could.

[00:33:17]Ex 73. I watched it go. [music] Watched it go.

[00:33:23]A door I didn't open in the [music] headlights glow.

[00:33:29]I could have stepped down.

[00:33:32]I could have made the call.

[00:33:36]Said I'm staying the night. Said I'm done with it [music and singing] all.

[00:33:42]Done with it all. Exit 73.

[00:33:48]Exit [music] 73.

[00:33:51]The road keeps the choice I never made for me.

[00:34:03]>> [music] >> There's a version of me on the kitchen floor laughing at something I won't [singing] hear anymore. A coffee gone [music] cold and a window gone gray. And nobody asking me to drive away. Drive away.

[00:34:20]>> But the diesel keeps singing the song that it sings. And the mile markers [music] count off the shape of my wings.

[00:34:27]And the man in the glass looks a lot like [music] a ghost to the one who stayed home with the ones he loved most.

[00:34:39]His regret just a way of being faithful to the night you couldn't quite let go.

[00:34:51]>> Let it go. [music and singing] Let it go. Is the ache in the chest just the heart staying grateful for the lives you almost got to know.

[00:35:07]And I carry [music] them all like a second address. Every exit of name, every name. Yes. I [music] never said out loud. Never said out loud. Never out loud.

[00:35:23]Exit [music] 73.

[00:35:26]I watched it rise. Here it comes again.

[00:35:31]A whole other [screaming] life in another man's eyes.

[00:35:37]I [music] could have stepped down.

[00:35:40]I could have made the call.

[00:35:43]Said [music] I'm staying forever. Said I'm g all.

[00:35:50]G it all. Exit 73.

[00:35:55]Exit 73.

[00:35:58]The road keeps the choice I never made [singing] for me.

[00:36:04]>> Never made. Never made.

[00:36:10]Never made. [music] Never made. Never made.

[00:36:16][music] And the sun slides by.

[00:36:21]And the night [music] slides on.

[00:36:24]And I love it. I love it. The lives that are gone. The lives that [music] are gone. Exit 73.

[00:36:36]Exit [music] 73.

[00:36:38]The road keeps the choice.

[00:36:42]The road [music] keeps the choice. For me.

[00:36:46]>> For me.

[00:36:48]For me.

[00:36:52]For me, for me, [music] for me, [music] [music] can a song be a place to stand when the ground [music] keeps moving under your hand.

[00:37:27]Oh, under your hand.

[00:37:32]Can a me [music] hold the line when the wheels won't stop? And neither will time.

[00:37:40]>> Neither [music] will time.

[00:37:42]>> No, neither will time.

[00:37:48]My [music] marker passing like a breath I forgot [singing] to take.

[00:37:54]Yeah. [music] Everybody's sleeping but the song still awake.

[00:38:05][music] Leaning [singing] in the aisle to find the note we [music] share. Boys in the back row ghost in every chair. The engine hums low on somewhere around [music and singing] the deep. Low and slow, low and slow. We keep coming [singing] home to it [music] cuz it's the only key.

[00:38:32]I watch [music] their faces dreaming lit by the dashboard blow.

[00:38:39]Wondering [music] which parts of me only live when the wheels roll. [music] only when they roll.

[00:38:48]And the wide lines pull me forward and [music] the rear view lets me go. Let it go. Let it go. And somewhere between the [music] verses, there's a man I used to know.

[00:39:08]Can [music] a song be a place to stand when the ground keeps moving under your hand? Oh, [music] under [singing] your hand.

[00:39:23]Can a mey hold [music] the line when the wheels won't stop? And neither will time. [music and singing] Neither will time. No, neither will time.

[00:39:46]>> [music] >> Coffee gone cold [singing] in a paper cup. Driving nods [music] a slow nod says we ain't stopping up. Roll on.

[00:39:58]Roll on.

[00:39:59]>> There's [music] a cord I keep returning [singing] to that I cannot name. Like a face you almost recognize through [music] a window pane.

[00:40:10]The life still [music] cries a question that the lyric won't ask.

[00:40:18]And I hide behind [music] the harmony [singing] like it's some kind [music] of mask.

[00:40:25]Some kind of [singing] mask. Yeah. If the road is [music] all the home I get, then the song is all the prayer I've kept. [music] All the prayer I've don't wake [singing] me when we hit the line.

[00:40:42]Just keep the [music] wheels in the rhying time.

[00:40:46]>> Keep it in time. Keep it in time. Can [music] a song be a place to stand when the ground keeps moving under your hand? [music] Under your hand can melody hold the line [music] when the wheels won't stop. And me the will [singing] time.

[00:41:11]>> Need the will time. No need can [music] only be a place to stand when the ground keeps moving under your [music] hand.

[00:41:23]Oh, [music] keep the bus rolling. Keep it rolling. Keep it rolling.

[00:41:38]>> [music] >> Don't need an answer tonight. No, no answer tonight.

[00:41:42]>> Just the hum and the headlights [music] and the blend in the eye.

[00:41:47]>> In the eye. In the eye.

[00:41:49]>> Keep the bus rolling.

[00:41:53]Keep the bus rolling [music] on.

[00:41:59][music] How do you measure a [music and singing] life when the calendar's a tour?

[00:42:19][music] When the days are just the cities and the [music] nights are just the doors.

[00:42:31]I [music] keep counting what I carry, but the carrying counts me too.

[00:42:38]>> How do you [music] measure?

[00:42:41]How do you know?

[00:42:43]>> And the zipper [music] closes slow on what I thought I knew.

[00:42:52]There's a photograph [music] folded where the corners come undone.

[00:42:58]>> Yeah. [music] Yeah. And the guitar pick I've been saving [singing] since before the song [music] was sung.

[00:43:15]A receipt [music] from a diner with a coffee tasted thin. A ticket stub. A borrowed shirt. [music] The trouble I [singing] was in. I lay them on the bed [music] spread and I read them like a hand, [singing] like a hand, like a map.

[00:43:32]Every little nothing is a country I once ran. [music] And I've started leaving pieces of the heavy on the floor just to [music] feel a little lighter. Walking out the door.

[00:43:47]>> Lighter. [music] Lighter. Now, how do you measure a life when the calendars [music] are to when the days are just the cities and the nights [music] are just the door?

[00:44:04]I keep counting what I carry, but the carrying [music] counts me too.

[00:44:12]>> How do you measure?

[00:44:14]How do you know? And the zipper [music] closes slow on what I thought I knew.

[00:44:26]A matchbook from a wedding where I didn't know the bride. A letter I half answered. [music] [singing] And a letter I just sang. The fiddles in the corner and the lap steals on the bed. M. Yeah.

[00:44:44]And every song [music and singing] I've written is a thing I should have said.

[00:44:52][music] What gets saved is what survives [singing] the choosing.

[00:44:58]What gets kept is what you couldn't bear to [music] lose.

[00:45:04]And the road don't ask you what you came here proving.

[00:45:08]>> Came here proving. [music] Came here through. It just opens up and lets you choose.

[00:45:17][music] How do you measure a life? When the calendars are tour, when the days [music and singing] are just the cities and the nights are just the door.

[00:45:33]I [music] keep counting what I carry, but the caring counts [singing] me too.

[00:45:40]How do you measure? [music] How do you know? And the zipper closes slow on what I thought I knew.

[00:46:04]>> [music] >> I pulled the zipper closed and I [music] sat there on the bed.

[00:46:13]Couldn't tell you what I saved and couldn't tell you what I left.

[00:46:21]The case got a little lighter or the case [music] got a little wise.

[00:46:30]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:46:32]And [music] the morning's at the window with a tour bus idling.

[00:46:40]Idling [music] slow.

[00:46:43]Idling on.

[00:46:49][music] >> [music] [music] >> This little room key [music] goel in my hand.

[00:47:22]>> One more night, one more name. [music] I never learned.

[00:47:26]>> Proof I belong somewhere. Proof I can [music] stand.

[00:47:34]I'm running out of reasons. [music] Running out of road. And I'm half afraid of every door that opens when I'm home.

[00:47:44][music] Home. Home. Wherever that word goes.

[00:47:52]Dragged the [music] lobby piano down the hall on a rug.

[00:47:56]>> Easy now. Easy now.

[00:47:59]>> Set it by the bed where the [music] lamp still glow.

[00:48:04]Played it quiet [singing] as a [music] thought I never told.

[00:48:17]There's [music] a curtain holding back the parking lot and moon.

[00:48:22]>> Blue light [music] bleeding through and a Bible in the drawer that [singing] nobody reads but I almost do.

[00:48:34]I count the things I'm short on.

[00:48:37]Patience [music] sleep a face that knows my own >> running.

[00:48:43]>> And the dial tone hum of the heater [singing and music] sounds a little like a him.

[00:48:51]So I [music] lay the brass key flat on the nightstand. What? Little cross, little [music] crown. Like it might mean something.

[00:49:04]Like it might mean [music] good.

[00:49:09]This little room key goel in [music] my hand. One more night, one more name I never learn. [music] >> Proof I belong somewhere. Proof I can stand. 4 a.m. the ice machine [music] turning.

[00:49:27]>> I'm running out of reasons, running out of road. And I'm half [music] afraid of every door that opens when [singing] I'm home. [music] Home. Home. Wherever that word goes.

[00:49:55]>> [music] >> There's a [music] song I keep beginning that the morning [singing] won't let me in. It never lets [music] me in.

[00:50:09]About the boy I used to be and the man [music] he tried to send.

[00:50:18]I write a verse on a napkin. Fold it twice into my coat. Fold it soft, fold [music] it slow. Like a letter [singing] to the stranger I'll be by the time I go.

[00:50:36]Maybe a rabbit is the [music] part I never learn. Never [singing] learn.

[00:50:42]Never [music] learn.

[00:50:44]Maybe leaving was the only prayer I burned. [music] Maybe home is just the place you keep behind your [music and singing] face.

[00:51:04]This little [music] room key goel in my hand. One more night, one more name. I [music] never learned.

[00:51:14]>> Proof I belong [singing] somewhere.

[00:51:16]Proof I can stand. 4 a.m. The ice machine turning. [music] >> I'm running out of meaning. Running out a road. And I'm half afraid [music] of every door that opens when I'm home.

[00:51:32]Home. Home. [music] Wherever that work goes.

[00:51:39]>> [music] >> Leave [music] the key on the dress.

[00:51:54]Leave the lamp burning low. Leave [music] it. Leave it. Some rooms remember you. A little after you go.

[00:52:04][music] A little after you go.

[00:52:07]And maybe home [singing] is only [music] the place you leave behind.

[00:52:14]Only the place, only the place. Only the place [singing and music] you leave behind.

[00:52:29][music] >> [music] [music] >> The map won't keep the shape I [singing] gave it. Every crease of road I [music] tried to save it on.

[00:52:53]Still [music] rolling.

[00:52:55]Still [singing] rolling.

[00:53:00]The paper [music] tears. The wheel keeps turning. [singing] Some old version of me is still learning how to [music] be gone. Oh, how to be gone.

[00:53:17][music] unfolded it slow on the dashboard [music] light.

[00:53:25]One more time.

[00:53:27]Crease is [music] pegging where it breaks tonight.

[00:53:42]There's a [music] town up here I swore I'd never leave.

[00:53:46]and a name down there I wore right on my sleeve.

[00:53:52]Each little [music] dot of man I used to be. None of them the [singing] whole truth. None of them fully me. [music] >> No, not fully me. I've been measuring the hours by the [music] sound check.

[00:54:06][singing] H by the sunrise coffee gone lukewarm and numb. And the engine [music] keeps a promise [singing] that my own mouth never could.

[00:54:18]Oh, [music] never could.

[00:54:21]Sing. Go on, go on, [singing] go on.

[00:54:24]Like a good man [music] should.

[00:54:30]The [music] map won't keep the shape. I gave it. Every crease of road [music] I [singing] tried to save it on. Still still rolling. Still rolling.

[00:54:49]The paper [music] tears. The wheel keeps turning. [singing] Some old version of me is still learning how to be [singing] gone.

[00:55:02]How to [music] be gone.

[00:55:11]>> [music] >> I keep a thermos full of yesterday's regret and a tape deck playing songs [singing] I can't [music] forget.

[00:55:21]>> Forget >> every exit signs a letter I won't send.

[00:55:25][music] Every mile of sentence I'll begin again.

[00:55:31]The [music] dashboard glow is all the company I need. The white line writes the chapter. [music] While I read, while I read.

[00:55:42]Am I [music] choosing these roads or just running the ones I know? The ones I know.

[00:55:51]Is the [music] wheel in my hands or am I just alone for the show?

[00:56:00][music] The headlights bend around a turn. I've taken [music] a thousand times before and [music] I still don't know.

[00:56:13]What I'm leaving or what I'm driving toward.

[00:56:18][music and singing] Driving hard. The map won't keep the shape [music] I gave it. Every crease of road I tried to save it [music and singing] on. Still still rolling.

[00:56:34]>> Still rolling.

[00:56:40]The paper [music] tears, the wheel keeps turning. Some old version of me is still learning how to [music] be gone. Oh, how to be gone. [music] It came [music] apart right there along the fold.

[00:57:08]>> Let it go. [music] Let it go.

[00:57:11]I held the pieces, watched [music] them catch the cold.

[00:57:21]The wind [music] took care. The other half I kept driving [music] on through everywhere I [singing] haven't slept.

[00:57:32]Still [music] rolling.

[00:57:37]Still rolling on.

[00:57:41][music] [music] I've gotten [music] good at goodbye. Too good, too good.

[00:58:02]>> I can play it in any key, any night, [music] any sky.

[00:58:08]Every face a different door.

[00:58:10]>> Same heart, [singing] >> same floor. And I [music] smile while I'm already missing more.

[00:58:16]>> Already gone.

[00:58:18]already [music] gone.

[00:58:20]>> There's a suitcase by the window and a coffee [music] going cold.

[00:58:28]Here we [music] go again.

[00:58:31]There's a song I keep rehearsing every time [music] I hit the road.

[00:58:40][music] Verse is just the piano and the way my hands remember and the bass [music] walks in like an old friend in December.

[00:58:53][music] Brushes on the snare like footsteps in the hall.

[00:58:59]>> Easy now easy.

[00:59:01]>> I know the lines before the curtain [music and singing] even falls.

[00:59:06]I practiced every part until the pardon [singing] feels like home. [music] And leaving doesn't leave [singing] a mark at all.

[00:59:18]And the strange [music] thing is I mean it every time I say it new. I swear I do.

[00:59:25][music] But the words come out the same [singing] no matter who I'm talking to.

[00:59:33][music] I've gotten good at goodbye to.

[00:59:38]I can play it in [singing] any key any night.

[00:59:41]>> [music] >> In the sky, every face a different door. Same hallway, [music] same floor. I smile while I'm already missing more. Already gone.

[00:59:55][music] [music] There's a glow off the dashboard [music] and a town I can't recall. Was it Tuesday? Was it you?

[01:00:13]>> I've been writing the same [music] letter and mailing it to all. The names blur in the [music] chorus, but the melody stays true. And I wonder if the ache is mine or just the room [music] without you.

[01:00:30]Is this love I'm carrying or just the [music] shape of what's not here?

[01:00:34]>> Tell me. Tell me. Is the hard kind of muscle [music] that remembers what we wear?

[01:00:41]Out on every [singing] empty highway and every borrowed bed. Oh, the things we never said. [music] >> Would it hurt less if I stayed?

[01:00:51]Or would I miss the road instead?

[01:00:53][music] I've gotten good at goodbye to good.

[01:01:00]I can play it [music] in any key, any night, any sky.

[01:01:06]Every face [music] a different door.

[01:01:08]Same hallway, same floor. And I smile while [singing] I'm already missing more. [music] Missing more. Missing more.

[01:01:17]I've gotten good at Goodbye.

[01:01:29][music] So I'll [music] fold the same farewell and I'll tuck it in my [music] coat. One for the road, one for the road. And I'll sing it like I [music] wrote it. Even though I always wrote it. Even though I always knew. [music] M Even though [music] I've gotten good.

[01:02:15]I've gotten good at [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Is it faith [music] or is it [singing] just the running?

[01:02:48]>> Is it faith? [music] Is it flight? Is it grace or just the wheels still humming?

[01:02:55]>> Keep it low, keep it right. [music] >> Tell me, brother, when [singing] the night goes on forever is the moving. How we hold ourselves [music] together.

[01:03:09]>> Hold on.

[01:03:12]Well, [music] the only way we know [singing] to say goodbye.

[01:03:20]4:00 a.m. in the windows [music] hum a low [singing] blue tone.

[01:03:26][music] Half a dream and a half a name [singing] I used to own.

[01:03:33][music] There's a [music] hymn in the diesel underneath the floor. The [singing] longheld note I've been listening [music] for. I don't know the words, but I know the need for something [music] steady I can lean against and read. I think of Danny with his hands on fire of Rosemary [singing] [music] who walked into the wire. Oh, the ones we lost. And the part of me that wants to take that ride. [music] And the road keeps offering its [singing] arms. Take it, take it slow like a promise that can [music] do no harm.

[01:04:20]>> But you never know. [music] Is it faith or is it just the running?

[01:04:26]>> Is it faith? Is it life?

[01:04:29]>> Is [music] it grace or just the wheels still humming?

[01:04:33]>> Keep it low. Keep it right. Tell me brother, when the night goes on forever, [music] is the moving how we hold ourselves together. Oh, [music] hold on.

[01:04:51]For the only way we know to say goodbye.

[01:04:55][music] [music] I write their names on the back of a receipt. Friends will burn the candle from the [music] middle to the street.

[01:05:14]Gone [singing] too soon.

[01:05:19]And I wonder if the fire that [music] I carry in my chest is a lantern or the same old test.

[01:05:29]The bus leans [music] into a curve I cannot see. And the lap still cries like it's praying over me. Sing it low for the ones who [music] couldn't sleep and wouldn't stay. Maybe prayer is just a sound [singing] you make when the words have all been spent. [music] >> When the words run dry. Maybe motion is the only [singing] song [music] a tired man can invent.

[01:06:00][music and singing] >> And the engine underneath us is the closest [music] thing to a man that I found [music] again.

[01:06:15]Is it faith [music] or is it just [singing] the running?

[01:06:18]>> Is it faith? Is it? Is [music] it grace or just the wheels still humming?

[01:06:25]>> Keep it low, keep it right.

[01:06:28]>> Tell me, brother, when the night [music] goes on forever is the moving how we [music] hold ourselves together, hold on [music] for the only way we know to say goodbye.

[01:06:50][music] And the engine keeps on holding [music] that one note underneath the last core [music] underneath my coat.

[01:07:08]I won't close the door.

[01:07:10]>> I won't say >> I won't say [music] I know.

[01:07:13]>> I won't say I know. Just the longheld [singing] tone and the miles to go.

[01:07:21]>> Just [music] the miles to go.

[01:07:27]Ooh. [music] [music] >> [music] >> lands to the late for the sky era.

[01:07:59]Was the night enough?

[01:08:03]Was it ever enough for the ones in the [music] front holding on to the sound?

[01:08:12]>> Was it [music] ever enough? Did I give you the thing that you [music] came here to find?

[01:08:21]But just borrow the light.

[01:08:23]Till the trucks rolled around.

[01:08:26]>> Till the [music] trucks rolled around.

[01:08:31]>> Last [music] light at the ramp.

[01:08:38]Last [music] light at the ram.

[01:08:46]The cases [music] roll by like a slow parade. Black road [singing] cases and the gaffers tape. The amps go quiet.

[01:08:55][music] The crew don't speak.

[01:08:58]>> Just the wheels on the board.

[01:09:01]>> In the room I just [music and singing] filled is an empty shape. The mic stands lean like they're half asleep. And [music] the applause that was here, well, it had to leave.

[01:09:13]>> It always [music] leaves.

[01:09:15]>> And I'm standing here with my coat half on, wondering who I was when the lights were [music and singing] on.

[01:09:23]>> Who was that? Who was that man?

[01:09:26]>> There's a question the song [singing] never answered yet. And I carried it out like a half paid [music] debt. Was the night enough?

[01:09:36]Was it ever enough [music] for the ones in the front holding [music and singing] on to the sound?

[01:09:46]>> Was it ever enough?

[01:09:47]>> Did I give you the thing [music] that you came here to find or just borrow the light? Till the trucks [music] roll around.

[01:10:00]>> Till the trucks roll around.

[01:10:05]Oh, there was a [music] woman, three rows from the stage, mouthing the words to a song I outgrew.

[01:10:24]>> She [music] knew every line.

[01:10:27]>> And a kid with his arms folded tight as a cage [singing] like it dared me to mean what I said. that I [music] knew.

[01:10:35]I wanted to thank them. I couldn't say [singing] how.

[01:10:39]>> Couldn't find the words now. [music] >> So, I sang it again.

[01:10:44]And I'm singing it now.

[01:10:48]>> I [music] needed something tonight, too.

[01:10:51]Don't ask me to name [singing] it. It slips when I do.

[01:10:55]>> It slips when I do. [music] >> Some nights the song is the prayer in the room. Some nights the prayer is the only [music] thing true.

[01:11:06]And the cold I'm still holding.

[01:11:09]Won't [music] tell me which one.

[01:11:11]>> Won't tell me. Won't tell.

[01:11:14]>> Was it not enough?

[01:11:17]Was it ever [music] enough for the ones in the front? Holding on to the sound.

[01:11:27]>> Was it ever enough? Did [music] I give you the thing that you came here to find?

[01:11:35]Or just borrow the light? Till the [music] trucks rolled around. Oh, >> till the truck roll around.

[01:11:45][music] Oh, [singing] last light at the ramp.

[01:11:51]>> One more call, let it ring.

[01:11:53][music and singing] >> And the door swings closed on the question again. Was the night enough?

[01:11:59]>> Was it ever? Was it ever?

[01:12:02]>> Was the night [music and singing] enough for anyone?

[01:12:08]Hold the cord.

[01:12:12]Let it [music and singing] go.

[01:12:25]>> [music] [music] [music] >> I'm fine. I'm fine. Just [music] watch the window go by.

[01:12:52]Yeah, just watch it roll.

[01:12:55]>> I'm fine. [music] I'm fine. But the melody's telling a lie. [singing] Oh, it always [music] does.

[01:13:04]>> Coffee gone cold in a paper cup. The miles keep counting [music] the hours up. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I swear I'm fine.

[01:13:22]>> [music] >> Dawn through the tinted glass.

[01:13:26]A blue line breaking slow.

[01:13:30][music] Somebody snoring two rows back.

[01:13:34]And me with nowhere left to go. [music] Here we go again.

[01:13:43][music] Wheels been turning [music] since a quarter 3. The driver hum something only he can hear.

[01:13:59]I started writing a verse for [music] you. Then I crossed it out and wrote [singing] the mileage here.

[01:14:06]>> Scratch it out, start again.

[01:14:08]>> Pin on the napkin, ink on my thumb.

[01:14:12]Promises folded and tucked away.

[01:14:17]Funny [music] how the morning keeps changing its face. Depending on who's still asleep today. And the same son, same son looks different [music] through every [singing] pain.

[01:14:33]>> Oh, it does. It does.

[01:14:35]>> Same heart. Same heart. asking the same old name.

[01:14:42]I'm fine. I'm [music] fine. Just watch the window go by.

[01:14:48]>> Yeah, just [music] watch it roll.

[01:14:51]>> I'm fine. I'm fine. But the melody's telling [singing] a lie.

[01:14:58]>> It [music] always does.

[01:15:00]>> Coffee gone cold in a paper cup. The miles keep counting [music] the hours up.

[01:15:09]I'm fine. I'm fine. [singing] I'm fine.

[01:15:12]I swear I'm fine.

[01:15:17]I had a quarter [music] for the pay phone back at the stop. I let it ride in the [singing] well of the door. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe the next exit down.

[01:15:30][music] Maybe I'll know what I'm calling for.

[01:15:34]>> Maybe. Maybe not. There's a kid up front with his head [music and singing] on his coat.

[01:15:39]>> Dreaming of someone he hasn't met.

[01:15:43]>> And I'm trying to write, but the engine knows. [music] But the page just homes and the ink [singing] won't set. What does it mean to miss someone while you're still [music] becoming who you are?

[01:16:00]>> Tell me. [singing] Tell me. What does it mean to call it home when home keeps moving like a star?

[01:16:10]I don't have the answer in my pocket.

[01:16:14][music] I don't have it in my head, but the silver [singing] morning keeps on rolling.

[01:16:23]>> And maybe [music] that's the closest thing to a plan.

[01:16:27]>> Closest thing. Closest thing.

[01:16:29]>> I'm fine. [music] I'm fine. Just watch the window go by.

[01:16:35]>> Yeah, just watch it roll.

[01:16:38]>> I'm fine. I'm [music and singing] fine.

[01:16:40]But the melody's telling a lie.

[01:16:44]>> Oh, it always does.

[01:16:47]>> Coffee [music] gone cold in a paper cup.

[01:16:51]The miles keep [music] counting the [singing] hours up. I'm fine. I'm fine.

[01:16:58]I'm fine. I swear I'm fine.

[01:17:03][music] >> Same song, [music] >> same window, >> same paper cup. Roll on, >> same question. [music] >> Waking [singing] the rider up. I'll cross it out and I'll write it again.

[01:17:22]Somewhere between who [music] I was and who I've been. I'm fine. I'm fine.

[01:17:30]>> Roll on silver morning. [music] Roll on.

[01:17:35]Roll on.

[01:17:42][music]