Hearts On The Road

Hearts On The Road
by George Clinton & Tom Chapin
© 2006 The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

How many nights have found me here
Like this night?
A turn of the wheel, a song on the radio.
Raindrops fall and shatter in the headlights.
How many nights? I don’t want to know.
Hearts on the road so far from home.
Somebody somewhere waits for you.
But you’re rolling hard tonight
Down some endless line of white
With the headlights and the red lights
And the blues. Hearts on the road.

Someday I will make a map of my life,
Of where I’ve been
And all that I’ve been through,
I will place you right here in the Heartland.
And every line will lead away
Then lead back to you.
Hearts on the road so far from home.
Somebody somewhere waits for you.
But you’re rolling hard tonight
Down that endless line of white
With the headlights and the red lights
And the blues. Hearts on the road.

Hello, I’m leaving.
Goodbye, I’m coming home.
But I need to know that you are there
When I’m out here on my own.
And I ain’t no fallen angel,
No hero in a hurricane.
Just a lonesome traveler late at night
Driving through the rain...

And my hearts on the road so far from home.
With every sweet, sad song I think of you.
All alone in bed tonight
Just a-wondering if I’m all right
With the headlights and the red lights
And the blues. Hearts on the road.
Hearts on the road.

Hello, I’m leaving.
Goodbye, I’m coming home.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's The Turning Of The Tide CD.

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