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Cover of Van Full of Maybe

Track 3 of the album Sparks on the Blue Ridge · 2014

Van Full of Maybe

by The Lantern Hounds

“This is our origin story in three minutes: four guys, a van, and a lot of bungee cord. The gang chorus is the heart of us.”

folk rock · jangle-pop · singalong · 3:49

Lyrics

Four of us and a borrowed van
Amps strapped down with a bungee band
Radiator's steaming by the state line sign
Nobody knows where we'll sleep tonight
But the tank is full and the tape is good
We're gonna play it like we knew we would

Oh we got a van full of maybe
Rolling west on a prayer and a spare
Got a song in the back and a map gone black
And the sunset waiting there
Hey, hey, we're a van full of maybe
Singing loud for the empty road
If it all falls through, well, I'm riding with you
And that's more than the money owed

Played a bar with a crowd of three
One of them cried and he paid us in tea
The bartender said you boys ain't bad
Come back when you're something that I've had
So we split a sandwich on the tailgate door
And counted up the dreams we're working for

Oh we got a van full of maybe
Rolling west on a prayer and a spare
Got a song in the back and a map gone black
And the sunset waiting there
Hey, hey, we're a van full of maybe
Singing loud for the empty road
If it all falls through, well, I'm riding with you
And that's more than the money owed

Mile after mile the stars come out
Somebody's snoring, somebody's singing
Nobody's doubting, nobody's out
Just the hum of the wheels and the engine ringing

Someday maybe there'll be a stage
A name in lights on a brighter page
But if it's just us and the dashboard glow
I'd still pick this road, I'd still go

Oh we got a van full of maybe
Rolling west on a prayer and a spare
Got a song in the back and a map gone black
And the sunset waiting there
Hey, hey, we're a van full of maybe
Singing loud for the empty road
If it all falls through, well, I'm riding with you
And that's more than the money owed

A van full of maybe
Rolling on, rolling on