Asheville Nashville Austin

A purple sky by dawn's first light

Along the Blue Ridge Range

The clouds fell down on a stone cold town

Asheville in the rain

Too early for the traffic down on Patton Avenue

But there was nothing left to say

There was nothing I could do

I went from Asheville to Nashville to Austin

In the service of a tune

I can't get there fast enough

I'm always gone too soon

I can play the part so well

But I never did make the scene

Forgotten pieces falling in the spaces in between

I raced on over to Nashville

Them southern girls don't wait

Some friends getting down out east of town

Said come and spend the day

The stories that they tell

And the lies that I believe

Sing me one more sad song

I'm leaving Tennessee

I went from Asheville to Nashville to Austin

In the service of a tune

I can't get there fast enough

I'm always gone too soon

I can play the part so well

But I never did make the scene

Forgotten pieces falling in the spaces in between

Heading back to Texas

Across the Travis County Line

The lights were out in Austin

Can't see the city limits sign

Well, I made my way in a 2-step haze

To a door that I once knew

I smiled in the lights of the Continental Club

It's good to see you too

I went from Asheville to Nashville To Austin

In the service of a tune

I can't get there fast enough

I'm always gone too soon

I can play the part so well

But I never did make the scene

Forgotten pieces falling in the spaces in between