Balsam Range Any Old Road (Will Take You There) lyrics

Verse 1

He slammed the door behind him, called his daddy “dumb”

He left home with tomorrow a-ridin' on his thumb

No particular direction, seventeen and scared

Hitched a ride beside the road, driver said “Son, where you goin?'”

He said “anywhere but here”

Chorus

If you don't know where you're goin', any old road will take you there

When it's ramblin' seeds you're sowin', you can't find the will to care

Any way you travel, red dirt, clay or gravel

Lost without a prayer, destination anywhere

Any old road will take you there

Verse 2


A little all night café, a young woman there in tears

The waitress says “You want some coffee? Does anybody know you're here?”

She slowly tells a story, says “he don't love me anymore,

I left my ring there by the bed and I don't know what lies ahead

I've never been this ‘gone' before”

Bridge

Sometimes the road is narrow, sometimes the path is straight

At times we face so many curves our turns are hard to take

Ending

Out there runnin' scared, in the middle of nowhere

Any old road will take you there