[00:20.00]I met a friend of spirit
[00:25.00]He drank and womanized
[00:29.00]And I sat before his sanity
[00:32.00]I was holding back from crying
[00:37.00]He saw my complications
[00:41.00]And he mirrored me back simplified
[00:46.00]And we laughed how our perfection
[00:48.00]Would always be denied
[00:57.00]"Heart and humor and humility"“
[01:01.00]He said "Will lighten up your heavy load"
[01:06.00]I left him for the refuge of the roads
[01:24.00]I fell in with some drifters
[01:28.00]Cast upon a beach town
[01:32.00]Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs
[01:39.00]And I wound up fixing dinner
[01:44.00]For them and Boston Jim
[01:47.00]I well up with affection
[01:50.00]Thinking back down the roads to then
[01:59.00]The nets were overflowing
[02:03.00]In the Gulf of Mexico
[02:07.00]They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads
[02:26.00]There was spring along the ditches
[02:30.00]There were good times in the cities
[02:33.00]Oh, radiant happiness
[02:37.00]It was all so light and easy
[02:40.00]Till I started analyzing
[02:45.00]And I brought on my old ways
[02:50.00]A thunderhead of judgment was
[02:52.00]Gathering in my gaze
[03:00.00]And it made most people nervous
[03:05.00]They just didn't want to know
[03:08.00]What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads
[03:48.00]I pulled off into a forest
[03:52.00]Crickets clicking in the ferns
[03:55.00]Like a wheel of fortune
[03:59.00]I heard my fate turn, turn turn
[04:03.00]And I went running down a white sand road
[04:07.00]I was running like a white-assed deer
[04:12.00]Running to lose the blues
[04:14.00]To the innocence in here
[04:22.00]These are the clouds of Michelangelo
[04:27.00]Muscular with gods and sungold
[04:30.00]Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads
[04:46.00]In a highway service station
[04:51.00]Over the month of June
[04:54.00]Was a photograph of the earth
[04:57.00]Taken coming back from the moon
[05:02.00]And you couldn't see a city
[05:06.00]On that marbled bowling ball
[05:10.00]Or a forest or a highway
[05:12.00]Or me here least of all
[05:20.00]You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
[05:25.00]Or this baggage overload
[05:29.00]Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads