There's A Rugged Road

(album: Cover Girl - 1994)

There's a rugged road on the prairie
Stretching all across the last frontier
There a stranger strives solitary
Blessed is the lonesome pioneer
Roll on, roll on, roll on
Night birds are flying
Come on, the light is gone
Hope's slowly dying
Tell me how you come riding through
Still surveying the miles yet to run
On the long and lonely road to kingdom come

She can blaze a trail, through the rumbling
Dims her guiding light to just a spark
When the hour is low, she comes tumbling
When the moon is high she gives her heart

Roll on, roll on, roll on
Night birds are flying
Come on, the light is gone
Hope's slowly dying
Tell me how you come riding through
Gaining steady till this round is won
On the long and lonely road to kingdom come

People far below chasin'pleasures
Offer her directions on the run
Prophets on the path offertreasures
Though she's mighty hungry she takes none

Roll on, roll on, roll on
Night birds are flying
Come on, the light is gone
Hope's slowly dying
Tell me how you come riding through
Blindly faithful but following none
On the long & lonely road to kingdom come

When the sun goes down at the right time
She comes winding through the purple haze
Just a feather's touch in the nighttime
But it'll color all my weary days

Shining finer than this earthly sun
On the ragged rugged road to kingdom come
On the ragged rugged road to kingdom come