Heat of the Wide Afternoon Lyrics

Written & Performed by Max Stalling
From the CD, Wide Afternoon (Blind Nello Records)
Submitted by Wes Wilson (wesjenn3@airmail.net)
To play along with the CD, capo at the 2nd fret.
Intro Chords: G C D G
Carolina highway, past boroughs and pine breaks
The roads long behind me, every signpost reminds me
My eyes have grown heavy, my wheels drone on steady
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus:
Ive been here forever, my whole life at least.
Trapped between mornings optimism and nights fleeting dreams.
Here where it matters, where reality looms
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
This road was a drug when I started way back
Each hill that I killed was like a pill that I took to relax.
Till the peace in the valleys, got a little too peaceful
All the ridges Ive run and all that Ive done
has left me with eyes full.
Eyes full of the worst, eyes full of the best
Eyes full of the tiredness that wont let me rest.
All the places I go to, no place is brand new
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Some people sit still, some people go fast
Some go right to it, some never get past
Laying a map out, they dont plan just assume.
And wind up forever in the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Here where it matters, where reality looms
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Outro chords: G C D G