Tom T. Hall Lyrics
"My Heroes Have Always Been Highways"

(Tom T. Hall)

My heroes have always been highways
And that's why I'm gone all the time
Route 60 ran by my house as a kid
And Lord how I loved the white lines.

I know there's a warm place beside you
And the kids ask about me sometimes
But my heroes have always been highways
I got a lowdown highway in mind.

Well, I missed all the PTA meetin's
I guess I'm not a PTA man
I've got a black coffee outlook and I dream
With a wheel in my hand.

Though I wish there was a way I could change
In anything that I do or I did
But my heroes have always been highways
And they have been since I was a kid.

--- Instrumental ---

And I love you the way that I love you
Not the way that another man would
I know that I live by a roadmap but all I wanna be great
And I wanna be good.

I guess I'm a quart low on something
That makes for a home loving kind
But my heroes have always been highways
I got a lowdown highway in mind.

My heroes have always been highways
I got a lowdown highway in mind...