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It's been a lonely bus ride, searching for your face
My sweat rolls off the glass as we pull into the place
Who can you trust today? All these faces I've never seen
I slip into the shadows of night; I'll see you in my dreams

Feelings come and go blending nighttime into day
All I see are stranger's faces, through my eyes so glazed
No time for patience love, crazy hours and crazy nights
The stage is my destiny; I've seen the World from my spotlight

You are the fresh blood flowing through my veins
You are the firewater that drowns all my pain
You are the ocean baby, and you've become the stars
Between the two I pray, that you won't be far

You glide on silent winds, the predator and I'm the prey
You are the music where I hide to forget my days
In the spotlight's heat, everybody knows my name
Another mask I wear to hide my sorrow and my pain

And so it's off again on another endless ride
I take another shot, to ease the hurt inside
I've traveled miles of land, across the deepest sea
I will always reach for you, but will you wait for me?

You are the fresh blood flowing through my veins
You are the firewater that drowns all my pain
You are the ocean baby, and you've become the stars
Between the two I pray, that you won't be far.

This is my "Wanted Dead or Alive", so take that Bon Jovi.

This was written for the girl I was dating at the time and took about two weeks or so to go from conception to completion. A simple, straightforward "on the road" ballad, there's not really much to say about this one that the lyrics do not. The Verse chord structure is Dm, F, and C and the chorus doubles those chords with strings and a counterpoint line in the Aeolian mode.

The emotion is true and this one was really written from deep within. The feeling of loneliness out there on the road is real, as is never knowing if the one that you left behind will wait around for you to either make it, or call it quits. Somewhere inside of all of us is that desire to just go for it, to live our dreams or die trying; to take the slice of time we have and make something of it.

Just as important, in my opinion anyway, is having that special someone there alongside you to either share in the fortune or to comfort you when things don't work out as planned. After months or years out there alone, you begin to doubt everything and everyone; you begin to think that it's all been a big mistake and that you were a fool to even think that you could make it. It's in those times that we call out for our other half, for the one that understands, for the one that keeps us alive, for the fresh blood flowing through our veins.

Dream your life, and live your dreams.

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