Refuge of The Roads

<br>I met a friend of spirit<br><br>He drank and womanized<br><br>And I sat before his sanity<br><br>I was holding back from crying<br><br>He saw my complications<br><br>And he mirrored me back simplified<br><br>And we laughed how our perfection<br><br>Would always be denied<br><br>&quot;heart and humor and humility&quot;<br><br>He said &quot;will lighten up your heavy load&quot;<br><br>I left him for the refuge of the roads<br><br><br><br>I fell in with some drifters<br><br>Cast upon a beachtown<br><br>Winn dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs<br><br>And I wound up fixing dinner<br><br>For them and boston jim<br><br>I well up with affection<br><br>Thinking back down the roads to then<br><br>The nets were overflowing<br><br>In the gulf of mexico<br><br>They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads<br><br><br><br>There was spring along the ditches<br><br>There were good times in the cities<br><br>Oh, radiant happiness<br><br>It was all so light and easy<br><br>Till I started analyzing<br><br>And I brought on my old ways<br><br>A thunderhead of judgment was<br><br>Gathering in my gaze<br><br>And it made most people nervous<br><br>They just didnt want to know<br><br>What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads<br><br><br><br>I pulled off into a forest<br><br>Crickets clicking in the ferns<br><br>Like a wheel of fortune<br><br>I heard my fate turn, turn turn<br><br>And I went running down a white sand road<br><br>I was running like a white-assed deer<br><br>Running to lose the blues<br><br>To the innocence in here<br><br>These are the clouds of michelangelo<br><br>Muscular with gods and sungold<br><br>Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads<br><br><br><br>In a highway service station<br><br>Over the month of june<br><br>Was a photograph of the earth<br><br>Taken coming back from the moon<br><br>And you couldnt see a city<br><br>On that marbled bowling ball<br><br>Or a forest or a highway<br><br>Or me here least of all<br><br>You couldnt see these cold water restrooms<br><br>Or this baggage overload<br><br>Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads