Antje Duvekot - Long Way lyrics

We bid our friends goodbye We promised we would write them And headed north up 95 Into the great unknown We turned up our stereo And felt so reckless and alive We didn't know who we would be We didn't know where we would end up When we headed down that road A little food and our guitars In the backseat and that old cello The one that would get stolen In a town in Idaho And it's a long way to Michigan and back And it's a long way Cause it's a long way, the clouds upon our backs And it's a long, long, long, long way And I have never seen Reflections of the cleanest Of blue as the Minnesota lakes Those were the longest nights Of wood smoke and Northern Lights As we talked until the morning came The light of glowing embers As sweet as I remember Among the rustling of the trees The legend of the harvest moon And sweet ballad of the loon I felt as ancient as I was meant to be And it's a long way to Washington and back And it's a long way Cause it's a long way, the clouds upon our backs And it's a long, long, long, long way I called you from a payphone In windy, cold Missoula And then from Midland in the rain A place as proud and sad as The South Dakota badlands It touched me more than I could explain The dirt poor reservation Where the Oglala nation Tries to hang on to its ways Feather and Peyote pipe and A six pack of Miller Light Sits on the dashboard of a beat up Chevrolet And it's a long way to Tennessee and back And it's a long way Cause it's a long way on the worn out heels of Kerouac And it's a long, long, long, long way Out in California We touched the other ocean And I still have that jar of sand In the Arizona desert The sky goes on forever You've never seen a thing as grand And North Montana was cold She keeps her secrets frozen Under glaciers way up north And people have got lost up there In the home of the grizzly bear And you can ask the mountain But the mountain doesn't care And it's a long way to Delaware and back And it's a long way Cause it's a long way, the clouds up on our backs And it's a long, long, long, long way Cause it's a long way on the worn out heels of Kerouac And it's a long, long, long, long way