Your eyes are long Vermont roads

With a tacky song on the radio

And your eyes are toothless young men

In Tennessee in the rain again



And fireflies never go to sleep

And country songs never help you sleep



After all those trains and all those breakdown lanes

The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to

After all those days on God-forsaken highways

The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to



Your eyes are the Mesa Verde

Big and brown and far away

And your eyes are Kansas City

In Kansas and in Missouri



After all those trains and all those breakdown lanes

The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to

After all those days on God-forsaken highways

The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to



After all this time and after all your crying

The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to

The roads are dark and long and all those country songs

Well, they don't love you and they still won't pretend to