I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man
He said he's been down this road more than twice
He was high on intellectualism
I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice

Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low
These are the days when anything goes

Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

He's got a daughter he calls Easter
She was born on a Tuesday night
I'm just wonderin' why I feel so all alone
Why I'm a stranger in my own life

Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low
These are the days when anything goes

Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer

Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

I've been swimming in a sea of anarchy
I've been living on coffee and nicotine
I've been wonderin' if all the things I've seen
Were ever real, were ever really happening (were ever really happening)

Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer

Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

Everyday is a winding road
Everyday is a winding road
Everyday is a winding road


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    I've always thought this song was a very personal one for Sheryl. I've read that there was a lot of animosity among the people who played on her first album, "Tuesday Night Music Club". Partially this was because it was recorded by a group of musicians who were getting together at the time to "jam" for fun and record various songs when the mood arose. Sheryl had tried to record her first album, but it was scrapped and the record label arranged for her to join into this group, with the intent that they use the songs she sang as her album. But they never told the group this, so they felt that their fun little sessions had been "hijacked" and several of them blamed Sheryl in the "industry papers". With that background, I believe the "daughter he calls Easter" is Sheryl herself - she was "born on a Tuesday night" - a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to her first album's title. She also talks about being "a stranger in her own life", which could be a reference to feeling that what people were saying about her in the media wasn't true. I have felt from the time that I first heard them that this song, along with "A Change Would Do You Good" are linked, and are her responses to all that had happened and all the bad feelings that these musicians who were so crucial to getting her career started now had about her. I'm not going to claim that the song isn't about other things as well, but I think she's just expressing how all of that made her feel. It also works as a comment on the start of her career - always on the road touring - it's a "sea of anarchy", filled with stimulants like "coffee and nicotine" that keep her going from day to day.

    KirkHon May 26, 2011   Link

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