Story Behind The Song
The feeling of losing everything and having to go on without knowing exactly where you were headed led to the line "It's not enough to leave it all behind me, I need to burn it to the ground." The rest of the song presented itself immediately after that.
Song Description
The protagonist has stepped outside the concept of time and moves slowly toward nowhere in particular, determined to reconcile the past.
| Song Length |
4:48 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative, Rock - Modern |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Passive |
Subject |
Regret, Highway, Street, Road |
| Similar Artists |
Dire Straits, Wilco |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1990 - 1999 |
| |
Lyrics
Nowhere Slow
Another hour and another town behind me
a ghost whispering through my radio
a torn half of a photograph reminds me
it's not really what but who you know
a whiskey headache and a vague premonition
that something somewhere's about to give
a Bogart movie flickers in the mirror
seems to say, "this ain't no way to live"
I'm going nowhere slow
still got a thousand miles to go
I'm going nowhere slow
and when I get there I might not know
a muddy Prophet screaming by the curbside
warning me that Things are gonna End
never had much patience with messiahs
but right now I sure could use a friend
I'm going nowhere slow
still got a thousand miles to go
I'm going nowhere slow
and when I get there I might not know
a memory taped to the dashboard
tells me What was Lost Shall be Found
it's not enough to leave it all behind me
I need to burn it to the ground
I'm going nowhere slow
still got a thousand miles to go
I'm going nowhere slow
and when I get there I might not know
I'm going nowhere slow
still got a thousand miles to go
I'm going nowhere slow
and when I get there I might not know