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Joe Jencks

Highway 4AM (Driving)  4:23

As you lie sleeping, I will not stop,
headlights on the blacktop.
In the wee hours of my thing,
   driving, driving.
When we first met how I must have seemed,
a young man in a boy's dream.
No information, just desire, higher, higher
   It's a lonely romance
   It's a desperate urge
   to put something beautiful in this world.
There are moments in a night's success
when something rises from the emptiness
and stirs the brave hope of a young desire,
   higher, higher
(hey yey yey)
As you lie sleeping, I will not stop,
headlights on the blacktop.
In the wee hours of my thing,
   driving, driving.
You have shown me the equal and opposite force
of found girls who want to save lost boys.
They know that longest road is never done alone,
they give them a way, a way back home.
   It's a lonely romance
   It's a desperate urge
   to put something beautiful in this world.
As you lie sleeping, through the misting rain,
high beams in the fast lane,
in the wee hours of our thing driving driving.
© Greg Greenway (Sheen of Heat Music, BMI)