[00:20.00]I met a friend of spirit
[00:25.00]He drank and womanized
[00:29.00]And I sat before his sanity
[00:32.00]I was holding back from crying
[00:37.00]He saw my complications
[00:41.00]And he mirrored me back simplified
[00:46.00]And we laughed how our perfection
[00:48.00]Would always be denied
[00:57.00]"Heart and humor and humility"“
[01:01.00]He said "Will lighten up your heavy load"
[01:06.00]I left him for the refuge of the roads
[01:24.00]I fell in with some drifters
[01:28.00]Cast upon a beach town
[01:32.00]Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs
[01:39.00]And I wound up fixing dinner
[01:44.00]For them and Boston Jim
[01:47.00]I well up with affection
[01:50.00]Thinking back down the roads to then
[01:59.00]The nets were overflowing
[02:03.00]In the Gulf of Mexico
[02:07.00]They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads
[02:26.00]There was spring along the ditches
[02:30.00]There were good times in the cities
[02:33.00]Oh, radiant happiness
[02:37.00]It was all so light and easy
[02:40.00]Till I started analyzing
[02:45.00]And I brought on my old ways
[02:50.00]A thunderhead of judgment was
[02:52.00]Gathering in my gaze
[03:00.00]And it made most people nervous
[03:05.00]They just didn't want to know
[03:08.00]What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads
[03:48.00]I pulled off into a forest
[03:52.00]Crickets clicking in the ferns
[03:55.00]Like a wheel of fortune
[03:59.00]I heard my fate turn, turn turn
[04:03.00]And I went running down a white sand road
[04:07.00]I was running like a white-assed deer
[04:12.00]Running to lose the blues
[04:14.00]To the innocence in here
[04:22.00]These are the clouds of Michelangelo
[04:27.00]Muscular with gods and sungold
[04:30.00]Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads
[04:46.00]In a highway service station
[04:51.00]Over the month of June
[04:54.00]Was a photograph of the earth
[04:57.00]Taken coming back from the moon
[05:02.00]And you couldn't see a city
[05:06.00]On that marbled bowling ball
[05:10.00]Or a forest or a highway
[05:12.00]Or me here least of all
[05:20.00]You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
[05:25.00]Or this baggage overload
[05:29.00]Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads

I met a friend of spirit
He drank and womanized
And I sat before his sanity
I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications
And he mirrored me back simplified
And we laughed how our perfection
Would always be denied
"Heart and humor and humility"“
He said "Will lighten up your heavy load"
I left him for the refuge of the roads
I fell in with some drifters
Cast upon a beach town
Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs
And I wound up fixing dinner
For them and Boston Jim
I well up with affection
Thinking back down the roads to then
The nets were overflowing
In the Gulf of Mexico
They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads
There was spring along the ditches
There were good times in the cities
Oh, radiant happiness
It was all so light and easy
Till I started analyzing
And I brought on my old ways
A thunderhead of judgment was
Gathering in my gaze
And it made most people nervous
They just didn't want to know
What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads
I pulled off into a forest
Crickets clicking in the ferns
Like a wheel of fortune
I heard my fate turn, turn turn
And I went running down a white sand road
I was running like a white-assed deer
Running to lose the blues
To the innocence in here
These are the clouds of Michelangelo
Muscular with gods and sungold
Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads