I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Life's like the road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and 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
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
Well, 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 you 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
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
A road so rough, this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors
Life is a highway
Well, I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long (all night long)
Uh, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah
Life is a highway
Well, I wanna ride it all night long (mm, yeah)
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long (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, ooh, yeah
There ain't no load that I can't hold
A road so rough, this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Tell 'em we're survivors
Life is a highway
Well, I wanna ride it all night long (all night long, yeah, yeah)
If you're going my way
Well, I wanna drive it all night long
(Uh, gimme, gimme, gimme, uh, gimme, gimme, yeah)
Life is a highway (life is a highway)
I wanna ride it all night long (ooh, ooh, yeah)
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
(Come on, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah)
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
(Yeah, I wanna drive it all night long, baby)
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long (all night long)
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and 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
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
Well, 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 you 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
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
A road so rough, this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors
Life is a highway
Well, I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long (all night long)
Uh, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah
Life is a highway
Well, I wanna ride it all night long (mm, yeah)
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long (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, ooh, yeah
There ain't no load that I can't hold
A road so rough, this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Tell 'em we're survivors
Life is a highway
Well, I wanna ride it all night long (all night long, yeah, yeah)
If you're going my way
Well, I wanna drive it all night long
(Uh, gimme, gimme, gimme, uh, gimme, gimme, yeah)
Life is a highway (life is a highway)
I wanna ride it all night long (ooh, ooh, yeah)
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
(Come on, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah)
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
(Yeah, I wanna drive it all night long, baby)
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long (all night long)
Lyrics submitted by queenvictoria_14
Life is a Highway Lyrics as written by Thomas William Cochrane
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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awesome song to sing to wen all alone blasting the music!
omg. so much hate in the world =( dude, don't listen to the song if you don't like it.
but i personally love this song. i don't like the original version because it just isn't LOUD enough and HAPPY enough for me! i do like the music in the original though.
seriously though people, chill out. jeeze. =)
personally i think this is so much better than the original. and i still don't get why people bother commenting on a song they hate so much.
They ain't Tom Cochrane, and that's all i have to say about that
Chris Ledoux did it best
CARS! xD I love this scene.. this soundtrack.. i.. blissful sigh
the lines "Through all these cities and all these towns, It's in my blood and it's all around, I love you now like I loved you then" speak the most to me, because it shows that we can travel as far as we like and go to many many places, but we can never get too far away to escape true love
This song is just so much fun! I loved the cars movie... I know it is a kid movie but it was pretty good. Some of the parts in this song can apply to life too. I mean you just need to keep going.
I love this song. And I love the Rascal Flats. Its so boppy and fun.
Ok people, the way Rascal Flatts sings it is much, much, much better than anyone else. fo sho:]