Out along the road to no return   Silence rules the day and knows no friend   The troubled past and all her tribe adjourn   To watch your dreams unravel in the wind      Chorus   But each new morning sunrise    Is just as good as gold   And all the hope inside you    Will keep you from the cold    Bare your soul let your spirit burn    Out along the road to no return      The sweet smell of nighttime rides on the breeze   The river is winding through the hickory trees   The redbones are howling down by Wilson's Bridge   The lawmen stand waiting upon Deadman's Ridge      Chorus   Ooh Carolina so dark I can't see   Ooh Carolina won't you let me go free      I came here with Lily a year just last fall   We left her old daddy back in Oonegal   We made us a home place of Black Mountain stone   But one cold winter morning I woke up alone      Chorus      Days full of silence are so incomplete   Nights without Lily I took to the streets   And in the streets of Asheville I channeled my pain   'Til one raging black night I slept in the rain      I dreamed of a refuge a red velvet world   And I swore my sweet Lily was one of the girls   I loved her so madly I loved her so long   I woke with my dream girl but her life was all gone      Chorus      Love has no boundary sorrow no end   And the lawmen of Asheville have no mercy in them      Chorus      Let me reach Tennessee