I Dream A Highway Lyrics

Lyric discussion by b0sendorfer 

Cover art for I Dream A Highway lyrics by Gillian Welch

This song definitely has some of my favorite lyrics ever, particularly the title and the verse:

"Sunday morning at the diner Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears I watched the waitress for a thousand years Saw a wheel inside a wheel, heard a call within a call I dreamed a highway back to you"

Absolutely perfect

so awesome. it's one of the only verses to have four lines (instead of three) before returning to the refrain, 'I dream a highway back to you.' so the extra line embodies the wheel within a wheel, the within a call - this presence, this apparition.