Between the Dirt and the Stars

Try to conjure up a night
 Of jessamine upon the air
 I'm seventeen and in a car
 Ready to ride anywhere
 The summer night sticks to my skin, and
 Beer's gone to my head
 My arm hangs out the window and
 I can't hear what you just said
 Over the radio
 Wild, wild horses
 Everything you'll ever know
 Is in the choruses
 Everything that made you whole
 Everything that broke your heart
 Whatever called you by your soul
 And piece by piece took you apart
 Every spark you ever chased
 All the faith love robbed you of
 Every light the dark erased
 Every cause that gave you up
 Turn on the radio
 Wild, wild horses
 Everywhere we'd ever go
 Is in the choruses
 Standing on the porch tonight
 All I hear is a distant car
 Watching the fading light
 Between the dirt and the stars
 Between the rough and smooth and
 The easy and the hard
 The lonely sound of loneliness that's
 Shaped just like my heart
 . . .
 Years will pass before we turn
 To face the place where we come from
 Years will pass before we learn
 What time denies to everyone
 If we're lucky ghosts and prayers
 Are company, not enemies
 I time travel straight back there
 You were singing back to me
 Along with the radio
 Wild, wild horses
 Everything you'll ever know
 Is in the choruses
 Over the radio
 Wild, wild horses
 Everywhere we'll ever go
 Is in the choruses