Verse 1: Em Em On a long and lonesome highway,east of Omaha D D You can listen to the engine moaning out it's one note song A A Em And you think about the woman or the girl the night before Verse 2: Em Em But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do D D When you're ridin' sixteen hours and there's nothin' much to do A A Em And you don't feel much like ridin' you just wish the trip was through D Em Here I am on the road again, D Em There I am one more stage D A Here I go,playin' star again D Em There I go turn the page Verse 3: Em Well you walk into a restaurant strung out from the road D And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shakin' off the cold A Em You pretend it doesn't bother you but you just want to explode Verse4: Em Most times you can't hear them talkin',other times you can D All the same old cliches, "Is that a woman or a man?" A Em and you always seem outnumbered so you don't dare make a stand Chorus Verse 5: Em Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away D Every ounce of energy you try to give away A Em as the sweat pours from your body like the music that you play Verse 6: Em Later in the evening as you lie a wake in bed D With the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head A Em And you smoke the day's last cigarette remembrin' what she said Chorus 2 times.