a fairly simple request - songs about travelling

[ex-lion tamer]

Dramamine by Modest Mouse
Wheels of Confusion-Black Sabbath

[william]

ooh, ooh! 'all i want' by joni mitchell! perfect.

[W. Earl Piglet]

"On A Plane" by Nirvana

or plain, whatever - it works.

[elpollodiablo]

Below are the lyrics to one of the most important traveling songs written in the past ten years. Being an epic country song, it's nearly in a class by itself; the lyrics are at once hopeful and desperate, nostalgic but not whimsical: there is a lot of history packed into these twelve verses, not all of it hers. Welch's voice, having always been rather haunting, comes as close at it ever will to sounding like a ghost; Rawlings' finger work, subdued, loses none of its power.
I'll gladly YSI this if anyone has an interest, but it is about 15min. long.

chorus:
Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and rest my soul
I dream a highway back to you

John he's kicking out the footlights
The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand new band
Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand
I dream a highway back to you.

I think I'll move down into Memphis
And thank the hatchet man who forked my tongue
I lie and wait until the wagons come
And dream a highway back to you.

The getaway kicking up cinders
An empty wagon full of rattling bones
Moon in the mirror on a three-hour jones,
I dream a highway back to you.

chorus

Which lover are you, Jack of Diamonds?
Now you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram
I send a letter, don't know who I am
I dream a highway back to you.

I'm an indisguisable shade of twilight
Any second now I'm gonna turn myself on
In the blue display of the cool cathode ray
I dream a highway back to you.

I wish you knew me, Jack of Diamonds
Fire-riding, wheeling when I lead em up
Drank whisky with my water, sugar in my tea
My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags
I dream a highway back to you.

chorus

Now give me some of what you're having
I'll take you as a viper into my head
A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed
I dream a highway back to you.

Hang overhead from all directions
Radiation from the porcelain light
Blind and blistered by the morning white
I dream a highway back to you.

Sunday morning at the diner
Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
I watched the waitress for a thousand years
Saw a wheel within a wheel, heard a call within a call
I dreamed a highway back to you.

chorus

Step into the light, poor Lazarus
Don't lie alone behind the window shade
Let me see the mark death made
I dream a highway back to you.
I dream a highway back to you.

What will sustain us through the winter?
Where did last years lessons go?
Walk me out into the rain and snow
I dream a highway back to you.

chorus

I dream a highway back to you
Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my sould
I dream a highway back to you.

[The_Tourist]

Below are the lyrics to one of the most important traveling songs written in the past ten years. Being an epic country song, it's nearly in a class by itself; the lyrics are at once hopeful and desperate, nostalgic but not whimsical: there is a lot of history packed into these twelve verses, not all of it hers. Welch's voice, having always been rather haunting, comes as close at it ever will to sounding like a ghost; Rawlings' finger work, subdued, loses none of its power.
I'll gladly YSI this if anyone has an interest, but it is about 15min. long.

i'd like to hear it if you dont mind

[Andrew_TSKS]

yeah, seconded.

[ex-lion tamer]

me too...

[heather marie]

that gillian welch song makes me cry like a baby.

[elpollodiablo]

...aaand, I'll post it soons I get home, natch.

[heather marie]

sorry to TOTALLY steal your flava and upload this, but i've been listening to it all night since you posted the lyrics, so i figured i'd go ahead and share:

gillian welch - i dream a highway

[elpollodiablo]

I stopped drinking and walked away from the couch for this?

[The_Tourist]

I stopped drinking and walked away from the couch for this?

you stop drinking when you sit at your computer? thats usually when i start  

[elpollodiablo]

I never really stop.

[math is money]

Kool Keith - Diesel Truckin'


diesel truckin baby
poppin no doze for nights
lookin at the tight skirts rollin' up the turnpike
comin down the highway

[Wally]

Go West- Pet shop boys

[reebty]

Howlin' Wolf - I Walked From Dallas
Bright Eyes - Another Travelling Song