Route 360 Lyrics - Rock Piano Ballad

by James Houser
(Blacksburg, Virginia)

Route 360 lyrics

(verse)
The highway shimmers down like a lantern in the night
I drive my father's car taking in the sight
Looking at all these places thought I'd left for good
Swore I'd never come back always knew I would

The sky is unclouded the tobacco is tall
I'm looking everywhere seeing nothing at all
All this time passed and it's just what I feared
The path God has chosen has led me back here

(Chorus 1)
Tonight I ride 360 in a beat-up Pontiac
Feel my dreams in this air and my blood in these tracks
Tonight I ride 360 and I know the cards are stacked
Cause you can't escape home and you always come back

(verse)
I met you at school and admired from afar
Thought about you a lot on this road in this car
I think you're still here in your old house with those lights
What's wrong is that it still feels right

I think I still see us here heading back to the start
Gunning down the highway trying to outrun the dark
Time stands still on Route 360 with this past I can't erase
Any more than I can wipe away these lines on my face

(Chorus 2)
We drove up and down this rugged route from east to west
And our souls stayed on the highway long after we left
You and I and all our friends, whether live or dead
Those that passed on remain in the back of our heads
Now we've returned and cruise this road once again
Come back cause of memories that time just won't mend
Come back to reap all the seeds that we've sowed
It just seems to me we never left that road

(Verse)
Ran out going sixty on our way to the prom
How could I have known that night that so much could go wrong
Could have danced till the morning your hand clasped in mine
But I lost all that when I went over the line


Has time really passed or is it all just a lie?
My old friends can’t wipe this road from their mind’s eye
So I cruise with the spirits up in my father’s car
And we’re all lost baby though I know just where we are


(Chorus 1)
Tonight I ride 360 peering into the black
Feel my dreams in the air and my blood in these tracks
Tonight I ride 360 and I know the cards are stacked
Cause however long we wander we always come back

(verse)
The bottle took my father took him into a tree
All he ever had he went and saddled on me
Now I’m living in his house and I’m driving his ride
Now I’m trapped in the town I always swore I’d leave behind

I lost you through pride and folly, lost you through sin
Now I’m back here to stay, maybe I’ll find you again
Maybe I can sew together what we tore down the seams
There's a little hope now cause I never lost the dream

(rising)
(Chorus 1x2)
Tonight I ride 360 but twenty years ago
I rode with you by my side I was warmed by your glow
Tonight I ride 360 still looking for you
See all the people I knew they haunt this place too
Tonight I ride 360 trying to cleanse my soul
Tonight I ride 360 listening to these wheels roll
Tonight I ride looking for the angel that I lost
Took too much for granted and I never knew the cost
Maybe baby it was just that our stars got crossed

(Chorus 2)
We drove up and down that rugged route and the night was long
And your soul stays on that highway even though you’re gone
Now I’ve returned to bring our love back again
Come back for all my agony that time just won’t mend
Come back to reap all the seeds that I’ve sowed
It just seems to me we never left that road