Song Description

Melodic nostalgic modern fairy tale with beautiful desert imagery; explores the cost of being "free"

Lyrics

DRIVE AWAY
©2005 Williamson-Hymes
Driving by the sagebrush,
in the faded gold of twilight,
Saw a lonely diner
shinin' in the desert night;
Hadn't stopped for hours,
there was nothin' else in sight,
so I went in and I sat down
for a cup to put me right;

You were lookin' like a flower
bloomin', far from the garden
You looked like you'd lost something
that you'd really put your heart in;
Staring down tomorrow,
lookin' out that open door,
and I thought, what do you stay
here for? Why don't you...
(Drive away) into a new tomorrow,
from your past and all your sorrow,
down a highway that you don't know;
No tellin' where you might go.

I said I loved my freedom,
you said you loved your family more,
I told you things I'd never told
another soul before;
Time flew by as we sat still,
Our hands touched as I paid my bill,
I said, "I'll settle down someday,"
but I thought: Why don't we...
(Drive away) into a new tomorrow,
from our past and all our sorrow,
down a highway that we don't know;
No tellin' where we might go.

As the sun was risin' and we
pulled up to your place,
I could see the dreams like
teardrops falling from your face;
I'm driftwood in the desert,
your clothes are hangin' on the line -
and you could never be mine, so I...
(Drive away) into a new tomorrow,
from my past and all my sorrow,
down a highway that I don't know;
No tellin' where I might go;
Drive away, just drive away...