That Wintered Blue Sky - Jim White

Find the list

Now do as I say

Pack your belongings

and just disappear

When you get where you’re going

try to give me a go

Take care *of your troubles*

not to stumble and fall

Should the highway rise up

to swallow you whole,

remember: nobody never got nowhere

nowhere alone

Your mama, she’s out again

Big sis lies awake

She’s grinding the grist

of this cruel twist of faith

Life’s never been easy

it sure ain’t been fun

Your life’s never been nothing

but a reason to run

So should the highway rise up

to swallow you whole,

remember: nobody never got nowhere

nowhere alone

See the stars burning bright out west

in that wintered blue sky

It’s like a picture you wish that you could paint

though you wouldn’t dare to try

Don’t it shake your soul right down,

all the marrow and bone?

Don’t it make your heart just ache

for something you can’t own?

So as the highway flies up

to swallow you all

think of me and remember, my friend

that nobody never got

nobody never got

nobody never got nowhere

nowhere alone