on a long and lonesome highway east of omaha you can listen to the engine moanin out his one note song you can think about the woman or the girl you knew the night before but your thoughts will soon be wanderin the way they always do when you re ridin sixteen hours and there s nothin there to do and you don t feel much like ridin you just wish the trip was through here i am on the road again there i am on the stage here i go playin star again there i go turn the page well you walk into a restaurant all strung out from the road and you feel the eyes upon you as you re shakin off the cold you pretend it doesn t bother you but you just want to explode most times you can t hear em talk other times you can all the same old cliches is it woman is it man and you always seem outnumbered so you don t dare make a stand oh here i am on the road again there i am on the stage yeah here i go playin star again there i go turn the page out there in the spotlight you re a million miles away every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play later in the evening as you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringin in your head you smoke the day s last cigarette rememberin what she said  here i am on the road again there i am up on the stage ah here i go playin star again there i go turn the page here i am on the road again there i am on the stage yeah here i go playin star again there i go there i go1