Young girl on a highway
Stranded in the snow
December, South of Cleveland
Ohio
I'm stopping out of pity
For a stranger I don't know
Just a young girl on a highway
Like me so long ago
I check my rearview mirror
And I'm taken by surprise
By a silver studded strand of hair
In the veins around my eyes
Oh, my eyes
She's frail but she's handsome
She's nineteen or so
Dropping out of Antioch
And drifting like the snow
On her way to Boston
To make dinner for some friends
Gets to where I'm off to next
She said, India
Oh, like the wind I'm off and running
Love there is no race
I saw a silver studded diamond peel
And a smile upon her face
Oh, her face
It said
Come with me, go with me
We will be free birds again
See, just like me
We will be free birds
And when you fly there's no time
Only your wings and you're free
She speaks of her adventures
Alaska and the ice
While Barry's on a doorstep
In springtime paradise
I'm off to the city
To a window shop downtown
I make a lot of money
Like a slave it ties you down
But the spirit right beside me
She's off to see the world
My silver studded memory
Longs to be just like this girl
Oh, like this girl
She says
Come with me, go with me
We will be free birds again
You'll see, just like me
We will be free birds
And when you fly there's no time
Only your wings and you're free
My three bird generation
Has come and gone
What's left behind
But one young girl on a highway
The last berry on the vine
Our lost forgotten causes
Lie deep within her eyes
While berries grow on doorsteps
There in paradise
And I look into the garden
I see myself upon that vine
I see silver studded dew falls
On berries lost in time
Lost in time
Come with me, go with me
We will be free birds again
You'll see, just like me
We will be free birds
And when you fly there's no time
Only your wings and you're free
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