Highway 29

[Verse 1]

I slipped on her shoe, she was a perfect size seven

I said, "There's no smoking in the store, ma'am."

She crossed her legs and then we made some small talk

That's where it should have stopped

She slipped me her number, I put it in my pocket

My hand slipped up her skirt, everything slipped my mind

In that little roadhouse on Highway 29

[Verse 2]

It was a small-town bank, it was a mess

Well, I had a gun, you know the rest

Money on the floorboards

Shirt was covered in blood and she was crying

Her and me we headed south on Highway 29

[Verse 3]

In a little desert motel, the air was hot and clean

I slept the sleep of the dead, I didn't dream

I woke in the morning, washed my face in the sink

We headed into the Sierra Madres across the borderline

The winter sun shot through the black trees

I told myself it was all something in her

But as we drove, I knew it was something in me

Something that had been coming for a long, long time

And something that was here with me now on Highway 29

[Outro]

The road was filled with broken glass and gasoline

She wasn't saying nothin', it was just a dream

The wind come silent through the windshield

All I could see was snow and sky and pine

I closed my eyes and I was running

Yeah, I was running, then I was flying