Verse 1:  
	     Em 			Em         
	On a long and lonesome highway,east of Omaha  
		 D                           D   
	You can listen to the engine moaning out it's one note song  
		A                  A    			  Em	  
	And you think about the woman or the girl the night before   
  
  
Verse 2:  
		  Em 	                            Em 	  
	But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do  
	          D                                     D   
	When you're ridin' sixteen hours and there's nothin' much to do  
	          A                        A 				    Em  
	And you don't feel much like ridin'  you just wish the trip was through  
		D	     Em  
	Here I am on the road again,  
	        D	     Em  
	There I am one more stage  
		D        A    
	Here I go,playin' star again  
		D	     Em  
	There I go turn the page 
 
Verse 3:  
		    Em				  
	Well you walk into a restaurant strung out from the road  
                                D   			  
	And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shakin' off the cold  
                                 A		         			      Em  
	You pretend it doesn't bother you but you just want to explode  
  
  
Verse4:  
		     Em  
	Most times you can't hear them talkin',other times you can  
		D  
	All the same old cliches, "Is that a woman or a man?"  
		  A							 Em  
	and you always seem outnumbered so you don't dare make a stand  
  
  
Chorus  
  
Verse 5:  
		  Em  
	Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away  
	D  
	Every ounce of energy you try to give away  
		  A						     Em		  
	as the sweat pours from your body like the music that you play  
  
  
Verse 6:  
	 Em   
	Later in the evening as you lie a wake in bed  
	 D   
	With the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head  
	   A 								 Em  
	And you smoke the day's last cigarette remembrin' what she said  
  
Chorus 2 times.