Running On Empty – Jackson Browne

Running On Empty – Jackson Browne

Because I am.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels

Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields

In ’65 I was seventeen and running up one-o-one

I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on

Running on – running on empty

Running on – running blind

Running on – running into the sun

But I’m running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive

Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive

In ’69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own

I don’t know when that road turned onto the road I’m on

Running on – running on empty

Running on – running blind

Running on – running into the sun

But I’m running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go

People need some reason to believe

I don’t know about anyone but me

If it takes all night, that’ll be all right

If I can get you to smile before I leave

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels

I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels

I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through

Looking into their eyes I see them running too

Running on – running on empty

Running on – running blind

Running on – running into the sun

But I’m running behind

Honey you really tempt me

You know the way you look so kind

I’d love to stick around but I’m running behind

You know I don’t even know what I’m hoping to find

Running into the sun but I’m running behind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYRtOPUonA&feature=share

6 Comments

  1. Steven Spence
    May 1, 2014

    Chad, not sure why in your case, but we’ve all had those days (even longer sometimes). Take care and refuel when you can. Jackson Browne is a good choice.

    Reply
  2. Chad Haney
    May 1, 2014

    Thanks Steven Spence. I have a deadline today. I should be refuelled this weekend.

    Reply
  3. Brigitte W.
    May 1, 2014

    LOVE Jackson Browne’s music.

    (Sorta didn’t like the whole fighting w/ Darryl Hannah though. Worked out for her though because JFK Jr. sent JB packing and took up where he left off w/ DH. Yeah, I read People Magazine back in the day….which was a Wednesday if I recall…;-)

    Reply
  4. Chad Haney
    May 1, 2014

    Ha, that’s a step up from tabloids, isn’t it B?

    Reply
  5. Brigitte W.
    May 1, 2014

    If that!

    Reply
  6. David Carlson
    March 22, 2015

    –with David Lindley on slide guitar as the super-cool older-brother archetype.

    (Racer X to Speed Racer or Mycroft to Sherlock)

    Reply

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