Chasing White Light

Stay awake, stay awake now honey
 We still got a long way home
 And the road might disappear
 If I don't hear your voice rolling along the line
 Like the spinning wheels
 Cuz I can't, I can't pull this weight alone
 I need you like I need my lungs
 So we can soak up that oxygen
 And it makes me wonder
 Why it's keeping us alive just to break us down
 For every place I leave I say so long
 I may not be around
 So long
 If you see me again
 I'll be a different man, yeah
 Cuz even now, from across the country
 I can stand the coldest wind
 While the roots are tangled up
 Reaching for that ancient river flowing steady underground
 Cuz all we can hope for, really
 Is to be grateful
 Is to be necessary
 Is to be useful
 Later on, when we don't need money
 I'll be sleeping in California
 And I won't feel anything
 And I won't remember the weight of your body on mine
 And I hope to say
 Farewell, I love you honey
 I've gone chasing that little white light
 I've gone swimming in the tiny chemicals
 That make me feel like I gotta turn up straight to heaven when I die
 So long
 I may not be around
 So long
 If you see me again
 I'll be a different man
 So long
 I may not be around
 So long
 If you see me again
 I'll be a different man, yeah