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Artist: Joe Ely
Canonical path: /joe-ely/highways-and-heartaches
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Highways and Heartaches
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Highways and Heartaches
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Leaving California
She is on my mind
I left her back in Travis county
Cryin' to a clothesline
A Steel guitar on the radio
Is cuttin' slow and mean.
I brought home the bottle
She just wanted beans
Highways and heartaches
Go together like you and me
Do you ever think about it
When the night is sad and lonely
I wonder if she's watchin' TV
Cryin' with Soap Opera Stars
I wonder if she sees them in me
And if we gone too far
Look at all the Lovers
Runnin' from their past
Gassin' up just to get somewhere
Goin' nowhere fast
Highways and heartaches
Go together like you and me
Do you ever think about it
When the night is sad and lonely
Do you ever think about me
When the night is sad and lonely
Do you ever think about me
When the night is sad and lonely
Runnin' away don't stop the pain
It just delays the cryin'
What's left unsaid is better swallowed
Than covered up with lyin'
Though the song is over
I still hear the steel guitar
And though the past is gone for good
It still helps to swallow hard
Highways and heartaches
Go together like you and me
Do you ever think about it
When the night is sad and lonely
Do you ever think about it
When the night is sad and lonely
Do you ever think about it
When the night is sad and lonely
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