When you look through the lights to the stage   You see the man of your dreams   You think his life's full of parties and love   But it's not what it seems   If you could see in his room right now   You'd see how much love is showed   There's never really any romance on the road      His forehead seems cut in two   By the crease in his brown   He chews his nails and he fidgets   Just tryin' to settle on down   The TV channels keep flippin'   His adrenaline slowed   There's never really any romance on the road, oh no      There's never romance on the road   Only frustration and overload   He could fall in love but he'd never know   For she's only riding and he's only hiding   He's sure to ask but she won't say,"No"   But there's never really any romance on the road      He was up in the bar straight-backed   Did you see him before?   Did he sign you his name?   Come with me, listenin' at his door   Hear himself so drunk calling home   Can't remember the code   You know, there's never really any romance on the road   Oh no, no, no      He's held some beautiful girls in his arms   But now he clutches his bunk   For all the good that they're doing him now   He might as well be a monk   For his memories ain't worth a thing   Till he's old and he's gone   And his past never quite catches up   The show's movin' on      Did he say he kept a picture   Of a blonde haired girl who'd been kind?   When he was last home, his own daughter   Brought it into his mind   Maybe closing bars and jets   Paid some debts that he owed   But there's never really any romance on the road      There's never romance on the road   Only frustration and overload   He's never learned a thing from the dust that blowed   On stage for an hour, on a laser beam tower   But you know he slept while the neon glowed   There's never really any romance on the road      There's never romance on the road   Only frustration and overload   He could fall in love but he'd never know   For she's only riding and he's only hiding   He's sure to ask but she won't say, "No"   There's never really any romance on the road