ward bond was his sidekick rowdy yates drove that wagon train out west right along this interstate cross the high plains of kansas to the colorado line spent a lot of sleepless nights round the campfire they had mountains on their minds those higt plains people they re different somehow you spent your life leaning into a hard wind i guess you re less likely to take a bow all these stories buried out here they re calling to me like the earthquakes in california like the hills back in tennessee i gotta circle back touch something near find out which way to go to get on out of here i lost my thread and i ve lost some time but it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind well its 99 in topeka the wind is blowin hot blowin through my oldest daughter s hair with everything else i forgot i drove her out to college drove back through an empty space thinkin back to when she was a baby tryin hard to see that face i gotta circle back touch something near find out which way to go to get on out of here i lost my thread and i ve lost some time but it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind two kids up and at em one more left at home she s a spark plug a real fire cracker and in four years she ll be gone they just blow through your life like the wind on the plains like the dust that covers everything til the rivers fill wiht rain i gotta circle back touch something near find out which way to go to get on out of here i lost my thread and i ve lost some time but it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind