Golden Fields Lyrics

Where the dark pines dwindle
And the plains begin
The highway stretches out like it'll never end
See it shine and beckon
Like a band of steel
Running into the shadows of these golden fields
Rain falls in sunlit curtains
Far across the land
Clouds cast their shadows on the hills
Like the shape of God's hand
Smell of rain and sweetgrass
fresh earth from the plow
Dark furrows revealed
The gulls look like angels
Above these golden fields

I was but a boy here
Twenty years a go
Staring out this window
At this same dark road
Heard the night wheel whisper
Heard the whine of the wheels
Felt all the lure and mystery
Off these golden fields
Small towns pass slowly
To the left and the right
Cities glow like embers
Scattered in the night
I'm lost in remembering
What the years cannot heal
Gone now forever
From these golden fields
Whisky in my coffee
Cigarette in your hand
Distant voices haunt us
On the radio band
Watching for the morning
Your hands upon the wheel
We are young forever
In these golden fields

I stopped the car this morning
To give my eyes a rest
Heard the night wind falter
Stand still, try to hold its breath
No lure now, no mystery
No secret revealed
Just the cry of the nightbirds
Above these golden fields