The Road Shimmers Like a Held Breath

Lyrics

The windows are down and the radio's gone
The asphalt is dancing, the horizon's withdrawn
A heat haze is lifting the far hills away
Like the memory of water on a very long day

My father drove this road in a summer like this
With his elbow out and a song he'd miss
I'm bringing his watch to a town I don't know
Where the people he loved had no reason to go

The road shimmers like a held breath
Waiting for the rain to come
Every mile is a slow remembering
Of who I was and where I'm from
The road shimmers like a held breath
And I carry on, carry on

A roadside stall with a handwritten sign
Cold water, one coin, and the shade is fine
The woman who sells it says, you've come far
I say, not as far as the light of a star

There's a storm on the edge of the map
I can taste it in the dust
Whatever the day has been holding back
It will break, as it must

The road shimmers like a held breath
Waiting for the rain to come
Every mile is a slow remembering
Of who I was and where I'm from
The road shimmers like a held breath
And I carry on, carry on

Carry on
Carry on
Let the rain come