Ah
A scarecrow,
hitching for a ride Skin like a leather tube
Eyes like kins,
where the rivers have dried Dust under a paper moon
It runs hot in the summer in the Piedmont plains
You meet the devil in the morning sun
And you take his heat
A hundred hours in the week Till he lets you see the autumn come
It's enough to drive a young man insane Make a woman wanna run away
I met Jack McCann,
he was a handsome man Was my ticket to a better place
Where do we go when the sun stays high?
Where do we go when we close our eyes?
Where do we go when we feel this tired?
Where do we go when we hitch a ride?
When Jack and me,
we never left the heat Got pregnant in the early spring
But when Jack got me, he'd raise his hand to me
And I never could predict his swings Then on the hottest night,
under full moon
light He stole the one good thing we'd made
And like a dandelion with the feathers
flying The wind pulled my heart away
When do you know to put a sick dog down?
Where do you go when you cross that line?
Ain't no secrets in a southern town
Where do we go?
Another orphan of the interstate
We're all running from something Leaving someone behind
Always another car coming When we hitch a ride
We're all picking up strangers Just for looking their eyes
We don't know we're in danger When we hitch a ride