Story Behind The Song
The land inspired this song - how in the world does anyone live out there?
Song Description
Written along Hiway 40 in Arizona/New Mexico
| Song Length |
3:31 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Folk - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Cool, Glad |
Subject |
Life |
| Language |
English |
| |
Lyrics
We?re Away
Bruce Allen Hutchins
Sitting here staring out into the distance
The mountains like ghosts in the shimmering heat
Just passed the G-dome of Meteor City
Telephone poles lined up perfectly neat We?re away!
Miles and miles of red dirt and flat rock
Bunches of desert plants, all shades of green
Neatly divided by power line pickets
Scraping out livings from a country Spare and mean
Bridge
The sky is so big as it endlessly stretches
Above all the dry barren plain
Clouds floating by like buffalo grazing
Selfishly holding all trace of their life-giving rain
Out where the land meets the sky in the distance
Uninterrupted by structures or trees
Mountains and mesas rise up from the flatlands
The dust devils rise and spin in a dance with the breeze
This road winds along from Vegas to Flagstaff
And on to Sedona by nightfall today
My soul?s being drawn by an energy vortex
The red, rocky canyons are calling me home We?re away!
Oh! We?re away!
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