From the recordings Every Mile a Story and Those Lonesome Dreams
Description: A nostalgic, Americana, piece about how loneliness and longing for home can suddenly overtake even an ambitious and successful man. He had travelled everywhere, climbed high, and gone far, but when the “dusty memories” settled in, he turned for home. Sometimes what we really want comes out most clearly in our dreams. The tune is contemplative and catchy.
Artist Fit: Zach Bryan, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers, John Moreland
Sync Keywords: Longing, home, nostalgia, open road, memory, reflection, rural landscapes
Lyrics
Turn south on Highway sixty seven.
Lord these mountains seem so green and warm,
It must have been a million miles I travelled
And now I’m going back where I was born.
It’s like the wind inside me just stopped blowing,
And all the dusty memories settled in,
There’s not a place to be I wasn’t going,
And nowhere left to go I haven’t been.
Those lonesome dreams again,
Calling me again,
Those gentle Ozarks talking to the sky.
Those lonesome dreams again,
Always asking when
That south Missouri country was gonna cross my eyes.
The city life was calling me so clearly
And then I climbed so high, and went so far,
And yet there comes a time a man grows weary.
Of wishing on the streetlights, not the stars.
The summer of my life was in the mountains
And now I want to feel those days again.
It’s like the wind inside me just stopped blowing,
And all the dusty memories settled in.
Those lonesome dreams again,
Calling me again,
Those gentle Ozarks talking to the sky.
Those lonesome dreams again,
Always asking when
That south Missouri country was gonna cross my eyes.