Upon the lonesome road   The traveler's hardened home   Hiding from the shining faces   Tucked away from settled places   With youth and driven covered holes   Above overshadowed lonely souls   They march towards greener pastures   To their happily ever afters      And so our hero traveler   From the land of down under   With nothing save an old suitcase   And a youthful grin upon his face   And golden locks of wavy hair   That stretch to cross his selfish stare   He'll take the path unspoken   And break the rules unbroken      Yet we aren't all we think we are   For born beneath a Northern star   Standing tall above the crowd   Possessing beauty well renowned   Empowered with a humbling grace   That shatters all the strongest gates   Our heroine she captivates      Slow down she'll say and tell him of a story   Filled with hope she'll say that he can stay awhile   Though she knows that parting ways will soon be so   She'll think of him when she is on the lonesome road      But following the long goodbyes   Our traveler he closed his eyes   And turned the other way   To other lonely days   And she while saddened by the end   Just shed her cracked and weathered skin   And turned the other way   No sadness can hold sway      Yet time can prove the harshest foe   Where memories gain the weight of stone   And desires straighten crooked roads   And lead back to a place called home   So it is no surprise to him   That they'll turn back before the end   The thought of her it makes him bend      Slow down he'll say and tell her of a story   Filled with hope he'll say that she can stay awhile   Though he knows that parting ways will soon be so   He'll think of her when he is on the lonesome road   The lonesome road      But it's not meant to be   At least not like the way we see   For they are nothing but a dream   A future with the faintest gleam   'Cause there's no pattern in the way   That paths and lives collide or stray   The power of the lonesome road   To steal the gold it freely sold      So let this story be   Not sad but just reality   For they will hold each other   As often as can be   And if they meet again   She'll smile and he will take her hand   And deceive their greener pastures   For just a while      Slow down they'll say and tell each other stories   Filled with hope they'll say that they can stay awhile   Though they know that parting ways will soon be so   They'll dream of this while sleeping on the lonesome road