Full Circle

Oh man the mountains called my number and won I'm just a lifesize lottery ticket in the hand of the One That stress-out freak-out's gone since we packed up the car Now I'm standing in a circle, all your sad faces crowning the yard Hair blowing out the window, got my foot on the dash Left my sister at a cheap gas station with no phone or no cash With the miles rolling under my wheels I'm not running from my troubles I'm running from me All this newness gonna mess up my mind Yeah I'm conscious of the future but I'm pressing rewind Why can't I live in my own time? Rip off the bandage, baby we gotta get used to it Honky-tonk bars and whiskey in this land of the music Halfway home's the same each side of the state line Inching closer to a mile high city and a sky they say is alpine Got no friends but a house the color of a tulip And you're my culture and my crush and you keep away any of my loneliness But that era had to come to an end Yeah it's pressed inside our minds but can't be present again Oh the canyons really make you smile Like the weight of being grown up just slid from your scale But problems aren't solved by a hiking trail