I5 North

Let the ghostly light guide your way through Central Valley

Make each farming town a tally where Mount Shasta marks the end

If you drive all night, hold your breath at Siskiyou Summit

There's a song and you will hum it up from Ashland to Eugene

At the state line, you say soft into the phone

Hey, I miss you and this time I'm coming home

Don't all the California hills look like they're lost

Like they're part of something missing?

They were left here and forgot

I can't complete them even though I twist and thrash

Oh, my edges will not match

It's time to go

Let the ghostly light guide your way through Central Valley

Make each farming town a tally where Mount Shasta marks the end

If you drive all night, hold your breath at Siskiyou Summit

There's a song and you will hum it up from Ashland to Eugene

At the state line, you say soft into the phone

Hey, I miss you and this time I'm coming home

Count all mountain passes, peaks and valleys pair

Like the waveform of some silent song that Oregon lays bare

Seems every secret could stay secret in these trees

But my secrets hide much better spots than these

Let the ghostly light guide your way through Central Valley

Make each farming town a tally where Mount Shasta marks the end

If you drive all night, hold your breath at Siskiyou Summit

There's a song and you will hum it up from Ashland to Eugene

At the state line, you say soft into the phone

Hey, I miss you and this time I'm coming home

The road says, please don't leave

There is joy here in the in-between

And though Klub Klondike gleams

And I've slept in every rest stop, so it seems

Anywhere, anywhere I lay my head

It's not home, not somewhere else

Past the college towns and the left-lane-hogging semis

Past the place where you first met me

Out on Burnside in the rain

Through the morning fog, burning off just north of SeaTac

Here's a place that has my back

Look how bright Seattle shines

Let the ghostly light guide your way through Central Valley

Make each farming town a tally where Mount Shasta marks the end

If you drive all night, hold your breath at Siskiyou Summit

There's a song and you will hum it

Trust me, you'll know what I mean

At your front door I say, however far I roam

Hey, I miss you and this place is always home

Hey, I miss you and this place is always home