Music and Lyrics: Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts

Parent-Teacher Conferences were held last week, Thursday and Friday, giving Captain Awesome and Little HRH two extra days for the weekend. We wanted to maximize the kids’ days off and take them out. Um and I originally thought of going on a day trip to Monterey, but Faja suggested that, with Captain Awesome and Little HRH’s straight A’s and E’s (E for excellent), as well as the recent development I have to keep to myself for now, a road trip to Los Angeles proved to be in order.

The drive from our house to SoCal is quite a stretch. And I have had this song in my head until we reached our initial destination.

Well, life’s like a road that you travel on

There’s one day here and the next day gone

Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand

Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There’s a world outside every darkened door

Where Blues won’t haunt you anymore

For the brave are free and lovers soar

Come ride with me to the distant shore

We won’t hesitate

To break down the guarding gate

There’s not much time left today, yeay

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long

If you’re going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Through all these cities and all these towns

It’s in my blood and it’s all around

I love now like I loved you then

This is the road and these are the hands

From Mozambique to those Memphis nights

The Khyber Pass to Vancouver’s lights

They knock me down

And back up again

You’re in my blood

I’m not a lonely man

There’s no load I can’t hold

The road’s so rough this I know

I’ll be there when the light comes in

Just tell ‘em we’re survivors

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, yeah

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long (mmmm yeah)

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

There was a distance between you and I

(between you and I)

A misunderstanding once

But now, we look it in the eye

Ooooo…Yeah!

There ain’t no load that I can’t hold

The road’s so rough this I know

I’ll be there when the light comes in

Just tell ‘em we’re survivors

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long (all night long, yeah hey)

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, yeah