Lifesize Lottery Ticket

Oh man the mountains called my number and won
I'm just a lifesize lottery ticket in the hand of the One
That stress-out freak-out's gone since we packed up the car
Now I'm standing in a circle, all your sad faces crowning the yard
Hair blowing out the window, got my foot on the dash
Left my sister at a cheap gas station with no phone or no cash

With the miles rolling under my wheels
I'm not running from my troubles I'm running from me
All this newness gonna mess up my mind
Yeah I'm conscious of the future but I'm pressing rewind
Why can't I live in my own time?

Rip off the bandage, baby we gotta get used to it
Honky-tonk bars and whiskey in this land of the music
Halfway home's the same each side of the state line
Inching closer to a mile high city and a sky they say is alpine
Got no friends but a house the color of a tulip
And you're my culture and my crush and you keep away any of my loneliness

But that era had to come to an end
Yeah it's pressed inside our minds but can't be present again
Oh the canyons really make you smile
Like the weight of being grown up just slid from your scale
But problems aren't solved by a hiking trail