Either Leaving Home
I met her way out on the sunset side of Vegas
Out where the burning desert turns to mystery
Out where the deepest recollection of pure heartbreak
Is tequila’s ancient history
As luck would have it she had just divorced her old man
She claimed they hadn’t got along for several years
Yet now that it was said and done she had been hit with
A river of uncalled for tears
She said it was a revelation
She said it cut her right down to the bone
She said everybody on this highway
Is either leaving home or going home
Now me I had been on my way to incognito
Out where nobody had a clue to who I was
My life had turned into a Fort Worth rank bull rumble
Waiting for a buzzer that would not buzz
She said it’s good when you get banged up
She said you ought to kiss the ground when you get thrown
She said everybody on this highway
Is either leaving home or going home
One starry night I took off in my El Camino
I headed back to where my roots turned rolling stone
And sitting right beside me was this angel saying
It ain’t just you who’s going home – it ain’t just you who’s going home
She said everybody has their heart break
Everybody has their mind get blown
She said “everybody on this highway
Is either leaving home -- is either leaving home -- or going home