Enough to Be On Your Way

So the sun shines on this funeral

Just the same as on a birth

The way it shines on everything

That happens here on Earth

It rolls across the Western sky

Back into the sea

And spends the day's last rays

Upon this fucked up family

So long, old pal

The last time I saw Alice

She was leaving Santa Fe

With a bunch of round-eyed Buddhists

In a killer Chevrolet

Said they turned her out of Texas

Yeah, she burned them down back home

Now she's wild with expectation

On the edge of the unknown

Singing, oh, it's enough to be on your way

It's enough to cover ground

It's enough to be movin' on

Home, build it behind your eyes

Carry it in your heart

Safe among your own

They brought her back on a Friday night

Same day I was born

We sent her up the smokestack

Yes and back into the storm

She blew up over the San Juan Mountains

She spent herself at last

The threat of heavy weather

That was what she knew the best

Oh, it's enough to be on your way

It's enough to cover ground

It's enough to be movin' on

Home, better build it behind your eyes

Carry it in your heart

Safe among your own

He woke me up on a Sunday

An hour before the sun

It had me watchin' the headlights

Out on Highway Five, Nine, and One

'Till I stepped into my trousers

'Till I pulled my big boots on

I walked out on the mesa

And I stumbled on this song

Oh, it's enough to be on your way

It's enough to cover ground

It's enough to be movin' on

Home, boy, build it behind your eyes

Carry it in your heart

Safe among your own

So long, old gal