Flickering lights mean distant towns
  Rolling wheels make humming sounds
  The full moon makes the night like day
  A lonely road will make you feel this way
  
  When the town square's dark the stoplights flash
  A midnight diesel rolls on past
  A northern front gives the air a chill
  I loved you then and I always will
  
  I just roll the window down
  Passing through your hometown
  
  Up at the high school there's noone in sight
  But they won their game on Friday night
  But now the lights are dark on the field of grass
  Where the hometown kid caught the touchdown pass
  
  Now the S.P. rail it makes a lonesome sound
  It splits the air and it shakes the ground
  Then it's swallowed up in the morning still
  I loved you then and I always will
  
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  Do the edge of town a store's lit up bright
  Gas pumps washed in flourescent light
  The cashier nods and jerks awake
  At eight AM she says she'll take his break
  
  And now your town recedes in my rear view
  I've no idea what became of you
  The sun comes up on a distant hill
  I loved you then and I always will