Pilgrimage

A story song about my road trip this summer. My best friend of 8 years and I embarked on a cross country road trip this summer, and this is some of the highlights.

Pilgrimage

By Jeremy Cooney

 

Open road in the summer

Not running to, not running from

Rain pouring in the mountains

But we always see the sun

 

Stop to play with ghosts in Vega

Barely make the tolls in old OK

Be-bop-a-lu'ing down to Graceland

Then it's Nashville for a stay

 

Stopped for breakfast in Kentucky

Had sweet tea with our barbeque

Blastin toons through Indiana

Hundred miles of "What Would Jesus Do"

 

Chorus

Wheels down to USA

Wheels down to USA

Wheels down to USA

Goin' home

 

End the world in a bookstore

Mercenaries on the rise

Monologues magnificently mesmerizing

Seven AM comes as a surprise

 

Lost momentum in Iowa

But the pyros wake us full

Talkin politics in Kansas

Keeper of the Plains steals my soul

 

Getting lost in Colorado

And we're almost outta gas

Where desert turns into Oasis

And the roads, they aren't so flat

 

CHORUS

 

Two AM and we're out the door

Seeing bats and glowing eyes

Got a gig in Boulder, Utah

Where the mountains meet the skies

 

Rocked the stage up on the mountain

Back in the car and off we go

Caffeine pills I start a'poppin

You sink down in your seat real low

 

And we've made it back to Phoenix

The day my brother turns eighteen.

Will we look back at this in twenty years

At what forty-five hundred miles really means?

 

CHORUS

 

Goin home

Goin home

Goin home

But where is home?

Goin home

Goin home
Goin home

This is home.

 

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