Refuge of the Roads (LP版)

I met a friend of spirit
He drank and womanized
And I sat before his sanity
I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications
And he mirrored me back simplified
And we laughed how our perfection would
Always be denied
Heart and humor
And humility
He said will lighten up your heavy load
I left him then
For the refuge of the roads
I fell in with some drifters
Cast upon a beachtown
Win dixie cold cuts
And highway hand me downs
And I wound up fixing dinner
For them and boston jim
I well up with affection
Thinking back down the roads to then
The nets were overflowing
In the gulf of Mexico
They were overflowing
In the refuge of the roads
There was spring along the ditches
There were good times in the cities
Oh radiant happiness
It was all so light and easy
Till I started analyzing
And I brought on my old ways
A thunderhead of judgment was
Gathering in my gaze
And it made most people nervous
They just didn't want to know
What I was seeing
In the refuge of the roads
I pulled off into a forest
Crickets clicking in the ferns
Like a wheel of fortune
I heard my fate turn turn turn
And I went running down a white sand road
I was running like a white assed deer
Running to lose the blues
To the innocence in here
These are the clouds of michelangelo
Muscular with gods and sungold
Shine on your witness
In the refuge of the roads
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the Earth
Taken coming back from the Moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway or
Me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge
In the roads