The highway bends like my lover's leg   Pulls me in like a wick draws a flame   She don't bother to remember my name   We don't talk of such things      I'll kiss you once   Baby, I'll kiss you twice   But I can't kiss you for the rest of your life   'Cause I'm not fit to be the man that makes you a wife      Baby, baby, it's just my foolish pride      Whatever road I may go down   If it bends, if it don't know how   I ain't stopped since I left my home town   And I can't slow down      I do what any man can to survive   Work a day or maybe even night   But I can't work inside for some nine to five   Honey not in this life      Whatever road I may go down   If it bends, if it don't know how   I ain't stopped since I left my hometown   And I can't slow down      Brown bodies   Bent at the waist   Frozen in a field as I drive by   In my own country's pace      Freedom is not a state of mind   Nor is it a united state   Oh, and it sure ain't my escape      Whatever road I may go down   If it bends, if it don't know how   I ain't stopped since I left my hometown   And I can't slow down      No no no no no oh no      And I can't slow down      No oh no   Oh, Lord      And I can't slow down