1. Oh, there’s nothing new, just thinkin’ ‘bout
The places that I’ve seen.
And wonderin’ ‘bout those others too,
The ones where I’ve wanted to be.
But it’s a different tale these days
Since you walked away from me.
Once you left me standing,
Well, you broke apart the rules.
I don’t care to walk no further now,
Go no further without you.
Chorus:
Now I’ve been pledgin’ to remain so strong.
Have I been doin’ this for far too long?
Countin’ my footsteps as I shoulder this load.
Missing you’s been a long and lonely road.
2. You slipped away so easily,
Even sayin’ when we’d meet again.
I didn’t wonder ‘bout your disappearing
’Til there came weeks without any end.
Left to wander I did choose a path,
But not one that let me cut my ties.
‘Deed, I played back all the pictures,
Like the image of your smile and curls,
To look for them on any sort of gloomy day,
Allowin’ me to re-create our world.
Chorus:
Here I’m pledgin’ to remain this strong,
Though I’ve been at this thing far too long,
Countin’ up footsteps as I shoulder this load.
Missing you is a long and lonely — long, lonely road.
3. Seems I should’ve topped the mountain by now,
Still I’m treadin’ on an uphill road.
And I should’ve forgotten your face by now,
Wiped the slate and had nothin’ more owed.
But weariness itself has kept me in line,
And I bear no hard feelin’s, no more.
No, I wouldn’t ask why
If you just came back to me,
I’d jump up just to make you stay,
Make you stay here, that’s my plea.
Chorus:
Though I’ve been pledgin’ to remain this strong,
I’ve been workin’ at this much too long,
Tallyin’ footsteps while underneath this load.
Missin’ you’s been a long and empty road.
4. Oh, can you see the way we’re movin’ apart?
On that wide circle too big to see across.
Should we expect we’ll meet again someday,
Or shall we stay forever lost?
I’m tryin’ to settle on my heart’s place
To see if I could yet break the spell
Of wishing that we meet once more,
Mostly different yet somehow the same.
I know I will remember your face,
And you will — won’t you now? — sing out my name.
Chorus:
Still I’m pledgin’ to remain this strong,
Though I’ve been at this really far too long.
So many footsteps tallied underneath this load,
Missin’ you’s been a long and lonely — long, dusty road.