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 brow   He chews his nails and he fidgets   Just trying to settle on down      The TV channels keep flicking   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   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, listen in 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 bike   Whatever good did they do in him now, he might as well be a mic      For his memories aren't worth a thing   Till he's old and he's gone   And his past never quite catches up   The show's moving 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 a 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