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Riding the Highline

from There's Gotta Be a Road by Charlie Monterey

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About a road trip in 1995 and what I thought I wanted back then. (Written in July 1996.)

lyrics

There's a road in Montana they call the Highline
Cuts through the plains like a path to the sun
Saskatchewan is the next stop if you happen to turn north
Range land and cattle and big sky the whole run
My pony and I rode the Highline last year
A flatlander passing through on a quest
I was alone, but not really lonesome
I was taking you with me on the way out west
On the Highline
On the Highline
Like a warrior traveling through country unknown
Riding the Highline

I was back home a few weeks before you
You had been riding too, in another direction
We shared our stories of the places we'd been
On one of those rare moments of our circles' intersection
That night we lay together, me holding you close
My heart was broke open like never before
A picture floated through my mind like a song
Of another road that I'd never traveled before
On the Highline
On the Highline
Like a warrior traveling through country unknown
Riding the Highline

We're all solo travelers, every long road tells me so
Facing lifelong journeys that are up to us alone
Sometimes I want it different,
if we're lucky that comes true
For a little while, for a little while

Sometimes I have this dream when I'm traveling alone
But it's not a white picket fence around a happy home
It's a lonely road not far from Canada
That just for a little way together we'd roam
On the Highline
On the Highline
Like two warriors traveling through country unknown
Riding the Highline

credits

from There's Gotta Be a Road, released January 20, 2001
Charles Sanderson: Bodhran. Charlie Monterey: Guitar, vocal.

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Charlie Monterey Warren, Michigan

Singer/songwriter and guitarist from metro Detroit, Michigan. Generally mellow sort of folkish songs, relatively minimal arrangements.

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