Story Behind The Song
Steve had this great melody and we both travel a lot. I kept hearing the tune and it captured that melancholy feeling you get out on the road when you're alone. So I wrote the first verse and chorus, and he took it from there. It is one of Junior Moment's most popular songs.
Song Description
It sounded like a good idea - a drive to your place to tell you goodbye, it's not working out. But of course, once I got there, I just couldn't find the words. Now, driving home, all I can think about is you again.
| Song Length |
4:15 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Country - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Moving |
Subject |
Frustration, Breaking Up |
| Similar Artists |
Lucinda Williams |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Last Exit
© 2003 Steven Golden and Elisabeth Golden
Truckers fly on 95, I?m wide awake but not alive,
Gone a hundred miles from your door.
Apron strings and spinning wheels, try to tell you how it feels,
Seems like we?ve been down this road before.
Chorus
I drove all night long to say that you were not on my mind,
But those were the hardest words to find, ah ha ha
Those were the hardest words to find, ah ha ha?
Service stations, silver rails, mileage markers straight as nails,
Every exit seems to lead to you.
Memories of better times, fight to crowd the highway signs,
Turning round like a carousel in blue.
Chorus
Instrumental of verse
Chorus
So I?m past the Mason-Dixon line, headed south toward Carolina,
Taillights of the semi?s pass me by.
No reason, just a rhyme, you and I were out of time,
Thinking now of ways to ask you why?.
Chorus