Traveling Alone - Tift Merritt

This morning, if it all was gone

Funny thing, it wouldn’t phase me none

Might feel like I just got home

See, I always had a taste for traveling alone

I only get this one time round

Better speak up straight, better speak up proud

Good Lord, if he’s not at home

Well, I always had a taste for traveling alone

Oh If I had a son

I would make him laugh, I would teach him something

I’d say, Son, you gotta hold your own

And it’s good to have a taste for traveling alone

Oh, if I had a love

I would say, «Man, got to keep up!»

Got to lay down, baby, feed my soul

'cause you know I got a taste for traveling alone

Oh, if I had a song

I would sing it now, wouldn’t take too long

I’d sing, «Goodness is a real bare bone

And it’s what you do when you’re traveling alone.»

Down south, baby, in the heat

I was raised up right, I was raised so sweet

Sweetness ain’t gonna get you home

You’re bound to get a taste of traveling alone

I know that the world is mean

I know it don’t care, I been around, I seen it

It’s like a pretty girl who don’t even know

I guess everybody here is traveling alone

Cigarettes and a pick up truck

I’m gonna leave this town now, I got to press my luck

Ocean gonna break so slow

You know, I always had a taste for traveling alone