have i got everything am i ready to go is it gonna be wild is it gonna be the best time or am i just saying so am i ready to go what do i hear when i say i hear the call of the road i think it started with driving more speed more deals more sky more wheels more things to leave behind now it s all in a day for the modern mind and i am traveling again calling this a ghost town and where is the heartland and i m afraid oh was there any good reason that i had to go when all i know is i can never come back traveling i made a friend he had a trouble in his head and all he could say is that he knew that the bottle drank the woman from his bed from his bed he said i m not gonna lose that way again but sober is just like driving more joy more dread someone turns her head and smiles and disappears he s gotta take it like it is and it goes too fast and he is just like me caught in between no sage advisor does weary mean wiser and someday will i sing the mountains that carried me away away from home and hometown boys like you yeah but what about us was it really that bad oh it s hard to believe i want a highway roadstop more than all the times we had on little dirt roads what am i reaching for that s better than a hand to hold it really was about driving not fame not wealth not driving away from myself it s just myself drove away from me and now i gotta get it back and it goes so fast so i am traveling again sitting at the all night picking up a pen and i m afraid oh was there any good reason that i had to go when all i know is i am all alone again and you are the ghost town and i am the heartland and i can say oh that s a very good reason that i had to go but now all i know is i can never come back and i will never go back