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Never Want to Go

(Bob Ryan)

Written May 12, 2005, For Helen on her birthday. The world is full of lovely places to go and things to see. But, in the end, to see something -- to experience something -- alone with no one to share the moment with you... well that's about the loneliest thing there is. So much of what I've seen in this life has been due to the sweet, strong woman who has walked for so long beside me.

When I was a boy I heard a freight train moan
Out across the field, such a lonesome sound
And it caught my heart, it made me want to go
To try to get away on any road I found

And so I made my way across the Texas flatlands
Across the wide grey miles of the of the great Midwest
Down a white sand beach along the Gulf Coast Highway
Up across the Colorado Rockies’ barren crest

Well my heart it yearns to be on some highway
To see what I can see, and keep on moving on.
But one thing I know,
I never want to go away from you.

In the golden hills out in California,
Something caught my heart, stopped me in my stride
Down through all the years I’d walked my road alone
Until you came along to walk it by my side

Well my heart it yearns to be on some highway
To see what I can see, and keep on moving on.
But one thing I know,
I never want to go away from you.

Oh the wide, wide world stretches out before you
And the ancient seas are lapping at your feet
But when the trains moan low, and the highway’s calling
I want to share each mile, and every face we meet.
I want to share each mile, and every face we meet.

Well my heart it yearns to be out on some highway
To see what I can see, and keep on moving on.
But one thing I know,
I never want to go away from you.