Picked up the morning paper and read
Somebody they found dead
On a road outside this town
In cold blood shot down
Somebody somewhere told
They picked up a kid fourteen years old
The judge man looked into his eyes
And said, “Son can you tell us why?”
Was there money involved or did you do it for fun
Just to watch a body smoking at the end of your gun
Well it really don’t whatever which way
Blame it on the highway
Picked up the paper turned the page
In black and white another outrage
Another kid six years old
Tied up in chains and left out in the cold
Her daddy said “I really love my child”
Her mama said “Don’t take away my child”
They took the kid and put her in a home
Safe and warm and all alone
Well nobody wins in this kind of game
Inside or out it’s all the same
And it won’t come right no matter how hard you pray
Blame it on the highway
Well this highway runs but it don’t forgive
You stack up your sins just as long as you live
From the break of the day to the end of the night
You might make it okay
But you never make it alright
There’s something in this world it has no name
Nobody knows where it came from
It never stops keeps coming around
You try to get up keeps on pushing you down
In babies’ eyes you watch it grow
What their mama and their daddy sow
Yeah we pass it along
So it’s always fresh it’s always strong
Well you cast your lot now you got what you got
Now the train keeps on coming if your ready or not
When you walk down to the judgement day
You can blame it on the highway
Blame it on the highway
credits
from An Average Day,
released May 1, 2002
Charlie Shew—drums
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