On our way

Electric city

Lyrics

there's a little bit of snow on ground
there's a little bit of cold in the wind
i'm still thinking bout the last time i saw you
it won't be long until we meet again

see the miles turn to dust between us
I'm not with you but I'm on my way
and our love filling up these days
I'm not with you but I'm on my way

there's a bird in the sky out the window
catching air but he's standing still
another winter out of work would be a long one
and so you traveled out to idaho

there's a river in the valley by the highway 
going nowhere but its flowing on
it won't be long until we hit the road together
but there's a lot of things we've got to do alone

a job and its an education
we're not free but we're on our way
gonna take us to a better situation
we're not free but we're on our way

we could settle in the middle of the city
we could go to the bars and see some rock and roll bands
work and tuck away a little bit of money
get ourselves just a little bit of land

we can live the way we want to live
we're not home but we're on our way
we'll build it all right over our heads
we're not home but we're on our way

there's a little bit of sun on the ground
there's a little bit of wind in my hair
I feel you with me even when we're not together
cause we're together and we're going somewhere

and the miles turn to dust between us
I'm not with you but I'm on my way
and our love is filling up the days
we're together and we're on our way

Notes

Yay! More low-fi recordings! I wrote this song for my boyfriend for Valentine's Day. I wanted to make it sound like Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, or Bruce Springsteen, but I think it needs more harmonica and drums and electric guitar to make that happen. As it is, its sort of an earnest, simple, poppy song. I had a very clear objective to communicate certain things to a certain person with this song, which made writing the lyrics a lot of fun - it also made the lyrics a lot less obscure than they usually are which I like.