I grew up in the rolling farmlands and woods of rural southwest Ohio. Those roads and that land are indelibly etched into my dreamscape. This song is about my family’s journey of aging and dementia, and how over time those roads, once familiar as the lines on our palms, can reconfigure and twist.
Lyrics
Lost on this open road
Where I am, don’t know
These roads don’t know me no more
Weary and scared, drive home
Memory, let go
All that I know, let go
Time’s losing shape, let go
Can’t find my way back home
Who is that face in the mirror?
Used to be so familiar
Look at them eyes, they be cryin’
Keep moving on, keep driving
Memory, let go
All that I know, let go
Time’s losing shape, let go
Can’t find my way back home