Wide Open Road

David McComb
(Mushroom Music Publishing)

Appears On:

• El Momento Siguiente (2007), Track 1
• Compilations:
  • Songs: Signature Songs, Classic Covers (2007)
  • Liberation Blue Acoustic Series Sampler (2008)
  • Australia's Greatest Songs: 40 Acoustic Classics (5/27/11)
  • The Triffids and Friends: It's Raining Pleasure DVD (2009) - Live Steve Kilbey performance with The Triffids

This is a cover of the song by The Triffids, from their 1986 album Born Sandy Devotional.

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Aug. 31, 2013]

Well the drums rolled off in my forehead
And the guns went off in my chest
Remember carrying the baby just for you
Crying in the wilderness

I lost track of my friends, I lost my kin
I cut them off as limbs
I drove out over the flatlands
Hunting down you and him

The sky was big and empty
My chest filled to explode
I yelled my insides out at the sun
The wide open road

It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road

How do you think it feels
Sleeping by yourself?
And the one you love, the one you love
Is with someone else

Then it's a wide open road
Then it's a wide open road
Now you can go anywhere
that you want to go

I wake up in the morning
thinking you're still by my side
I reach out just to touch you
then I realise

It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road
Now you can go anywhere
That you want to go

It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road

It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road