Name: There's Gotta Be a Road
Duration: P00H03M34S
Description: Lots of songs are about being on the road. This one's about wanting to be on the road. (Written October 1998.)

There's Gotta Be a Road

from There's Gotta Be a Road by Charlie Monterey

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Lots of songs are about being on the road. This one's about wanting to be on the road. (Written October 1998.)

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I hate waking up in the morning
And that moment that I realize
That the place I'm on my way to
Pays the bills but it won't feed my soul

I hate feeling the feeling I get
When it's like my friends fence me in
But right now I'd like to have the chance
To have a happy reunion after a long time apart

There's gotta be a road
There's gotta be a horizon
There's gotta be a way to get to
Someplace that I'm not at right now

Sometimes I think of my father
43 years in the same factory
He died just 30 miles from where he was born
I wonder if he ever felt like me

There's gotta be a road
There's gotta be a horizon
There's gotta be a way to get to
Someplace where I'm not at right now

There's gotta be more than pictures
There's gotta be more than stories
There's gotta be more than unfilled longings
There's gotta be, there's just gotta be

There's too many nights spent sleepless
And I think that a bottle would do me right
But I open the road map and follow the lines
My dreams come and they lead me away

There's gotta be a road
There's gotta be a horizon
There's gotta be a way to get to
Someplace where I'm not at right now

There's gotta be a road
There's gotta be a horizon
There's gotta be, there's just gotta be
Someplace where I'm not at right now

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from There's Gotta Be a Road, released January 20, 2001
Charlie: Guitar, bass, mandolin, 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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