Your eyes are long Vermont roads With a tacky song on the radio And your eyes are toothless young men In Tennessee in the rain again And fireflies never go to sleep And country songs never help you sleep After all those trains and all those breakdown lanes The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to After all those days on God-forsaken highways The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to Your eyes are the Mesa Verde Big and brown and far away And your eyes are Kansas City In Kansas and in Missouri After all those trains and all those breakdown lanes The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to After all those days on God-forsaken highways The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to After all this time and after all your crying The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to The roads are dark and long and all those country songs Well, they don't love you and they still won't pretend to