1. Drivin’ up the coast
   To find a version of the truth
   Left the backdoor swinging
   Like a dirty little sleuth
   
   The truth is I have never
   Felt half this alive
   Now it’s time to dance
   Upon the grave called 45
   
   Jacked up on some Kerouac
   And surely bullet proof
   The girl who taught me what to do
   Was missing her front tooth
   
   Gentle as a storm
   Inside your mental health
   I wanna find the answer
   But I just can’t find myself
   
R: I say so long
   To the way I played
   The way I played
   Inside of yesterday
   Hey let’s run around
   The great escape
   From out of my hometown
   
2. Later I would look for love
   Inside a woman’s dorm
   A couch to keep me humble
   And her breath to keep me warm
   
   Ophelia was the girl
   That I was feeling for
   Come to realize
   It was me who was the whore
   
   A captain lost himself
   Inside a 40 year old skull
   The drink of choice was knowledge
   And we always wanted more
   
   Drunken sailors
   Seeking their Geronimo
   Instead they found the things
   That they really didn’t wanna know
R: I say so long...
   
3. Country roads
   Would never let me stay
   The way I played
   Inside of yesterday
   
   A devil’s growl and cat’s meow
   Were blended into one
   Termites called suburbanites
   Were eating all the fun
   
   A juggernaut of comedy
   And blasphemy
   I wanna stop the madness
   But I think it has to be
R: I say so long...
   
4. Country roads
   Would never let me stay
   The way I played
   Inside of yesterday
   
   Hey let’s run around
   The great escape
   From out of my hometown