Great Divide

I wish I could leave my skin behind

In this old rented room

Float my way across

The great divide and be buried in you

I’ve been looking far and wide

For what I got to prove

Putting peaks in my rearview

Well it's colder here

Than anyone told me the South could get

And I took to staying up real late

And smoking cigarettes

The cheap tobacco burns

The way that bridge between us did

And I'm left looking at the glowing ends

But am I too far gone

To be running home?

Because I’m longing tonight

To be somewhere

Across that great divide

I wish I could take the hands of time

And turn them in reverse

I'd take back every long goodbye

With venom in my words

The only way to being found

Is getting lost at first

But all I find are more bridges to burn

So am I too far gone

To be running home?

Because I'm longing tonight

To be somewhere

Across that great divide

Well the highway has way

Of playing tricks on tired eyes

I swear that I see you

Riding shotgun late at night

Seems that you're the only thing

That never leaves my mind

The only thing worth getting right

So am I too far gone?

Because I'm running home

If only in my mind

I am somewhere

Across that great divide