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We-e-ell,

The drums rolled off in my forehead

The guns went off in my chest

Remember carrying the baby just for you

Crying in the wilderness

I lost track of my friends

I lost my kin, I cut them off as limbs

I drove out over the flatlands

hunting down you and him

The sky was big and empty

but my chest filled to explode

I yelled my insides out at the sun

At the wide open road

It's a wide open road

So, how do you think it feels?

Sleeping by yourself

When the one you love, the one you love

is with someone else

Then it's a wide open road

a wide open road

And now you can go any place

that you ever wanted to go

I wake up every morning

thinking you're still by my side

I reach out just to touch you

Then I realise

it's a wide open road

Wide open road - The Triffids (music & lyrics : David McComb)