Boston To Asheville Lyrics

we spend our days waiting and saying ?i can't wait?

talking about the summer how it'll be so great

and how we'll get out of this city and leave our troubles far behind

hop on a train or greyhound bus in search of people just like us

drunken with our wanderlust we'll keep searching for what we know we'll never find.



and everything will be different

once we make it to the mountains

the hope in our destination

is all that we are counting on

to get us all the way to Asheville, North Carolina

where friends and fires wait for us under the stars

and i hope that when we get there we'll remember why we came

because it's a long, long way

from the Massachusetts Bay

and these mountains may never be our home.



and on summer nights we'll set our sights on someplace else

hoping maybe there we'll find our simple wealth

or those amazing kids we met there whose names have long since slipped our minds

and fast as any hot-shot train we'll hop back on the road again

send letters back to our mountain friends and set out to see what we might find.



and everything will be different

once we make it to the ocean

only then can we forgive ourselves

the promises we've broken

and i hope that when we get there we can call this place our home

because it's a long, long way

to the San Francisco Bay

and these beaches may never be our home.



once the novelty wears off we'll find the same old shit

that drove us from the last place and the one before it

and slowly it will dawn on us, everywhere is pretty much the same

and if we want something new then we have got some work to do

until we get in the dirt and grab some tools, nothing's ever gonna change.



and everything will be different

once we get back to the city

'cause when we get there we'll start building

all that we've been searching for

i've been from shore to shore my friend and neither of them shine

all you get is all you build and building takes some time

and i know that it won't be long

before we'll feel that urge again.

'cause it's a long, long road

and there's so much we don't know

i guess i'll finish this song when I get back home.