The Long Way letra

We were islands soaked in solitude
Joined by the tide, we pushed back and we outgrew
If you told me the highway would wear your tires through
Then I’d go back and take the long way with you

Warm cans of steel reserve in a basement
Sweat-stained singalongs and discontent
Bound together by not fitting in
Punk rock songs and teenage stress
We were freaks, we were kids, we were miscreants

We were islands soaked in solitude
Joined by the tide, we pushed back and we outgrew
If you told me the highway would wear your tires through
Then I’d go back and take the long way with you

In bars that reeked of piss and alcohol
Choking on mothballs in legion halls
Found a place where we belonged
With each other we were strong
We were kin, we were rebels lost without a cause

It’s a lump in my throat and a longing for the mitten state
An infinite search for a past that I can’t recreate

We were islands soaked in solitude
Joined by the tide, we pushed back and we outgrew
If you told me the highway would wear your tires through
Then I’d go back and take the long way with you

We Are The Union - Letras

• 415 In Progress
• A Better Home
• Be Kind, Rewind
• Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
• Big River
• Boys Will Be Girls
• Broken Brain
• Curtain Calls
• Dead End
• December
• Delta. Oscar. Whiskey. November.
• Do Not Attempt To Adjust Your TV Set
• Do What You Love...
• Dust On The Hourglass
• End Of Daze
• Everything Alone
• Fake World
• Five Out Of Five Kids Who Kill Love Slayer
• For Good
• Glaring Teeth
• Hellbound & Helpless
• I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can
• I'm Like John Cusack
• If I Can’t Smoke Or Swear, I’m Fucked
• Is Over If You Want It
• Live Like Mitch
• Make it Easy
• Morbid Obsessions
• My Death
• Occupational Hazard
• One Million Motors
• Ordinary Life
• Ourcore
• Out Of Patience
• Pasadena
• Post-Ironic Sinkhole
• Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic
• Self Care
• Short Circuit
• Start Over Starting Over
• Strange, Slow And Old
• Surfing On The Waves Of Depression
• The Ghost That Haunted Me
• The Long Way
• The Way It Was
• These Colors Flee The Scene
• This Is My Life
• War On Everything
• Wasted
• We Don't Care If Yesterday Burns
• We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
• What We Have Here
• What's Wrong With Me?
• Where'd You Go
• You Can Have This Microphone
• Your Allowance Exceeds My Rent