There is something exciting about leaving everything behind
There is something deep and pulling leaving everything behind
Something about having everything you think you’ll ever need sitting in the seat next to you...

and I watch...

Another white dash-
another white dash-
another white dash-
Fly beside us....
and I watch
Another white dash-
another white dash-
another white dash -
Fly beneath us... away away.

There is Yelling of an engine a constant rattling door
There is serious- deep and mumbled-
a conversation I’m not it.
Flickering lights- shadows of trees-
makes me blink my eyes-
makes the land- appear like a really old mooooooovie

... and I watch...

Another white dash-
another white dash-
another white dash-
Fly beside us....
and I watch
Another white dash-
another white dash-
another white dash -
Fly beneath us... away away.

I got a heart fuels, of rubberbaaaaands
That keep... getting... caught on...thiiiiiiiiings.

And I count
Another white dash- another white dash-
another white dash
I drift off at eighty...something!
And I count
Another white dash- another white dash-
another white dash
Out of time with the muuuusiiiiiiic!!

Another white dash-
another white dash-
another white dash-
Fly beside us....
and I watch
Another white dash-
another white dash-
another white dash -
Fly beneath us... away away.

There is something exciting about leaving everything behind
There is something deep and pulling leaving everything behind
Something about having everything you think you’ll ever need sitting in the seat next to you


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Another White Dash Lyrics as written by Butterfly Giselle Boucher Y

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    Basically this is what i got out of this song, it is about leaving someplace that means a lot to you. Riding on a bus i believe. Everything you need sitting in the seat next to you- your luggage. Another white dash- road marks watching, she counts to 80 but loses count. conversations on the bus that she is not in, tree shadows make it look like an old movie, heart full of rubber bands- are caught on everything she is leaving making it hard to leave. Exciting to leave everything that means a lot to you, but in the same respect hard because it means so much. the rubber band comment ex.

    meesahunton October 05, 2004   Link
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    This song is so good. They play it on the college radio station here sometimes. It's so refreshing to listen to it while driving amidst the morons on I-95

    forensicson October 10, 2004   Link
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    General Comment

    a perfect road trippin' song...i think messahunt summed it up perfectly

    roach133on December 23, 2004   Link
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    General Comment

    amazing driving song

    Preciouszipsteron March 15, 2005   Link
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    i had no idea what this song meant - but now i do. thanks messahunt, it toally makes sense now! another white dash? haha i was soo off.

    strawberryfields623on May 06, 2005   Link
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    i'm pretty sure it's an arm full of rubber bands.. so it's literally that she's wearing them like bracelets and they get caught on stuff.

    it should also be mentioned that her father was a touring musician, so she spent a large part of her childhood on the road.

    lovesaidgirlon September 09, 2006   Link
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    I agree with messahunt, except I took the "something about having everything you think you'll ever need" as a lover, or a friend, who went along with her.

    musical_epiphanyon May 01, 2007   Link
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    the relief of getting away and only taking the person that really means something to you... but always having those memories that hold you back.. "I got a heart full of rubber bands that keep getting caught on things" genius lyrics.

    julysunon May 21, 2007   Link
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    This song really annoys me, because no matter how many times I look up to see it's "another white dash", all I can hear is "little white gash", and that sounds disgusting.

    jacobdudebroon April 20, 2015   Link

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