Common Rider

Carry On

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Big city miles stretching out into the terminal horizon Don't you know we had to get away? It was two kids with a beat up Nova, and a dream and a two a.m. song It was two kids with a beat up Nova singing come carry on Come carry on 'till the night's all gone come carry on come right where we belong The impossible girl lit a cigarette and said "I don't give a damn if we never come home" and I turned to her in the old starlight and a tender amazement swallowed up the night We could walk along be forever strong drive into the night, and the right, and the wrong It was two kids with a beat up Nova, and a dream, and a two A.M. song There ain't no dream like the one that's real Ashby to Eighty Eighty to the Bridge Bridge down to One Route One carry on We ate the night up and we shot the big coast 'cause the shoreline makes a heart open like a rose She found a song on the radio and it wiped all the blood off my halo It was two kids, whose heart were their own Toughest the world has ever known

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broken_words_2 On Jun 21, 2002

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by shindigg

21y ago

One of my favorite songs. Ever..it reminds me of the best of times in life just hangin' with my closest friends, just making the best of life with what you are given even if that may not be much..but it is something, and something special. It makes me want to get out of this town..go somewhere else..just travel with no destination ahead of me. with my best of friends along by my side....I like the line.."and it wiped all the blood off my halo." It just sounds so totally awesome, it's undescribable.

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by Jim Young

21y ago

This is my favorite song by Common Rider. It's just impossible to be sad listening to it!

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by heyheyitsbrent

21y ago

I especially like the "cause the shoreline makes a heart open like a rose" line. I guess thats from living on an island all my life though...

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by badtowndisaster

20y ago

my absolute faaaavoooorriitee

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by Darger3

16y ago

Beautiful lyrics. He has always been one of my favorite poets.

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