[Verse 1]
Jet fuel and traffic lines
Pulling up to the Delta signs
Distant shape of my hometown
Black stain where the wheels touch down
I pick up the morning news
I pass the man who's never shined my shoes
Through security and to the train
That'll take me to the airplane

[Verse 2]
Count the miles on the highway
The sum of all my days
There's a postcard, there's a call
And there's a picture for your bedroom wall
But do you ever wonder through and through
Who's that person standing next to you?
And after all the nights apart
Is there a home for a traveling heart?

[Chorus]
But if I weren't leaving you
I don't know what I would do
But the more I go, the less I know
Will the fire still burn on my return?
Keep the path lit on the only road I know
Honey, all I know to do is go
[Verse 3]
A cup of coffee and my bags are packed
Same vow not to look back
Familiar emptiness inside
As the distances grow wide
And though I vow to memorize
Last look in your loving eyes
It's here dusk and there dawn
Oh, it's like a curtain getting slowly drawn

[Chorus]
But if I weren't leaving you
I don't know what I would do
But the more I go, the less I know
Will the fire still burn on my return?
Keep the path lit on the only road I know
Honey, all I know to do is go

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
But if I weren't leaving you
I don't know what I would do
Oh but the more I go it seems the less I know
Will the fire still burn on my return?
Keep the path lit on the only road I know
Honey, all I know to do is go