Hitch A Ride - Delta Rae

Arms like a scarecrow

Hitchin' for a ride

Skin like a leather tomb

Eyes like canyons where the rivers have dried

Dust under a paper moon

It runs hot in the summer in the Piedmont Plains

Meet the devil in the morning sun

And you take his heat

A hundred hours in the week

Til 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 McKent

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 tide?

Where do we go?

Well we hitch a ride

Well Jack and me we never left the heat

Got pregnant in the early spring

But when Jack got mean

He’d raise his hand to me

And I never could predict his swing

And on the hottest night

In the full moon light

He stole the one good thing we’d made

And like a dandelion with the feather’s flyin'

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???

There are two dead bodies buried in the clay

Two souls that carried all of my love

And I’ll run from the sin, and the law, and the devil

And judgement from the Lord above

And I’ll leave my fate in the hands of strangers

Every driver on the great highway

I’m a phantom rider

A black widow spider

Another orphan on the interstate

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 tide?

Where do we go?

Well we hitch a ride!

We’re all running from something

(hitch a ride, go, go hitch a ride)

Leaving someone behind

(hitch a ride, go, go hitch a ride)

Always another car coming

(hitch a ride, go, go hitch a ride)

When we hitch a ride

(hitch a ride, go, go hitch a ride)

We’re all picking up strangers

(hitch a ride, go, go hitch a ride)

Just trust the look in their eye

We don’t know we’re in danger

When we hitch a ride

(hitch a ride, go, go)