There was a place I used to know Way back in my youth Where under the shade of a big plum tree I could find just a little truth Well the years they came and the years they went And nothing ever stayed the same Every morning the sun came up Something else had changed (C) But sometimes at night underneath the stars I let my worries go I close my eyes and I go back Back to Ohio The first time that I fell in love Was under that same sky And when my heart was broken in two Those same stars watched me cry I changed who I was, changed where I lived Changed what I believed It taught me how to grow up fast, man And it taught me how to leave (C) One day I turned my back, and packed my things Headed out on the road Didn’t know when I’d be back Back to Ohio I found a new home while I was gone And sort of settled in It surprised me just how easily I put on a new skin For X years now I’ve been away More changes come and gone And in a way I’d like to stay here But I just keep singing this song (C) I don’t know where I’m headed next But one thing I do know Where ever my road leads me I’ll Pass through Ohio (C) Sometimes when I’m headed west And the stars are all aglow I look out behind me and my back’s to Ohio Back to Ohio

Hey Molly, I see you there you're sittin' on the porch soakin' up the rain I see your smile and I can't help myself and then I'm fallin' down again All this time I've been waitin' for you singin' to myself just a little bit off key These dark clouds, they can't touch me now I'll take a piece of you if you want a piece of me (C) It never made much sense to me To carry on this way To tie yourself to a sinking ship And just roll on down to your grave Hey Molly, I sing Hey Molly, let's blow this town we'll buy an old sedan and head out on the road Drive till we get to the horizon and follow that rainbow to a pot of gold The future's like a cliff we're on the edge of now so reach out and take my hand I'm just as scared as you but if we jump together, who knows where we'll land? (C) Oh molly, now the sun is rising on a bunch of dreams I never knew I had Dancing down the boardwalk, kicking up the surf and the ocean probably thinks I'm mad All my life I felt I was lucky only to be loved once in a great while Oh molly, if I've got you, its a gift I don't deserve but I'll take it with a smile (C)

Feel, if you can Share the light that’s inside of you Even if you can’t understand Why anyone would ever care about you Fear of letting go Holds you back from really living Don’t be ashamed if you’re feeling low Take a hand up when it’s given (C) Because the world’s too big And life’s too short For us to (feel) With half a heart Live, while you can You’ve got one life, so don’t waste it Don’t be afraid to take a chance Or chase down your fear and then face it Death doesn’t wait For the day when you’ve had enough So do your best to appreciate The time you have left, and then fill it up (C) Love, while you can Your heart’s a gift, so give it Just jump right in, without a plan Love doesn’t grow unless you let it Loss might break your heart But there’s no day without a sunset Find a new way using the stars Keep on till dawn, you aren’t lost yet (C)

So I’m locked outside the apartment and the rain is pouring down Been so long that I’ve been gone so I guess It’s no surprise no one’s around Still I was hoping that I’d see someone On the street or from my car Guess I was mistaken when I left here The road could only take me so far (C) I wish someone had tried to tell me I wish they’d tried to make me stay I might not have listened but then how could I have known that everything would turn out this way? Now I’m back home, but I don’t live here All the faces they have changed Those dusty roads just rubbed my eyes raw I’m alone and I’m ashamed Thought I’d come back like a hero Having seen the things I saw But time has worn away all the things I loved Guess I’ll just get back in my car (C)

Had a dream the other night Of friends that I’ve known People who I left behind When I set out on my own (C) We laughed and played all through the day And through the nighttime too Told stories till the sun came up About all the things we’d do Back when all the world seemed new Had a dream the other night Of places that I’ve known Of somewheres that I’ve left behind Though I used to call them home (homes) (C) Smokestacks against an ebon sky Rolling seas of wheat Downtown to watch the trains roll by Someone else’s shoes on my feet As I walked on down the street I woke up the other night Tears dried on my face My dream began to fade away The memories replaced (erased) (Leaving real life in its place) (C) In my dreams, I see the past Just like it was back then But when I wake they slip away All the places that I have been All the faces of my friends I would gladly give anything (?) Just to see them all again

(C) Ever since I was young, I’ve heard the wheels of trains Rollin’ down tracks like the blood runs through my veins And the mercury sound of their lonely whistle blasts Echoes through my present, my future, and my past When I was a kid and I first heard that whistle blow I would imagine all the places I might go And in the night when I couldn’t fall asleep I’d listen for the whistle instead of counting sheep I dreamed of a train that could take me far away I’d ride on the rails until I saw a better day When the train stopped, I would be amazed to find That I’d left all of my troubles far behind When I grew up, I moved away to find myself Thought I could live without anybody else But even at night I was never quite alone The rumblin’ of trains made that house into a home Me and my friends would spend our nights out on the tracks We’d walk till the sun came up and made us head back And when we saw that headlight coming down the line We knew that everything was gonna be just fine Now that I’m grown, I hear that whistle once again And it reminds of the people I have been Now I know that it doesn’t matter where I go I’ll feel the trains when they’re rattlin’ through my bones (C)

She did not seem actual But built out of my dreams Brought to life like matches Lit and thrown in gasoline But this morning when I woke up she was still right there The sunrise stitching yellow through the blanket of her hair (C1) I’m falling in love, although This isn’t how I thought it’d go But I’m glad to be proven a fool When our eyes meet I feel a glow That burns away my shadows And makes room in my heart For something new She did not seem actual With a sunbeam for a smile I hoped the real world might forget me And let me stay with her awhile When I went fell asleep this evening She was still right there Asleep in rays of moonlight Like an answer to a prayer (C2) I’m falling in love although This isn’t how I thought it’d go But I’m glad to be proven a fool And now I want the world to know From Ohio to Idaho That I jumped off a cliff And I flew [Repeat first verse]

I left home when I was twenty-four To leave the kid I was behind (for good) I cut my hand on some glass the night before So the wheel was sticky with my blood A compass, an atlas, and a truck full of odds and ends I was too heavy to disappear (with her) As Ryan sang “Won’t you miss your friends?” I cried because I wasn’t sure (C) And I was following the roads As they spread out like veins from the heart of my home Outrunning all my ghosts The blank spaces on the map are where I’ll always roam We settled down into the middle of nowhere Then she said that it was time for her (to go) I’d stand in the darkness at the edge of town and stare I’ve never felt more alone I fell in love, when I was twenty-six With a sad girl who loved the road (like me) But she had a home, and a family that she missed We both knew it wasn’t meant to be She slept in my bed while I sat and smoked out front And Radiohead played Karma (Police) I realized sometimes you can’t get what you want But you might still get what you need (C) The summer when I turned twenty-nine I crossed the country on highway (two) It was me and Neal, and a new best friend of mine And that same old atlas to see us through It took eight days, through forests, dunes, and plains We drove all day and slept out in (the air) And in the end, the wisdom of all that space Descended on us like an asphalt prayer Now me and my best friend, we live out in the woods But I still hear the road singing (its song) And every time I do, I put down all my shoulds And hope that she’ll still come along (C)