Heat Of The Wide Afternoon

To play along with the CD, capo at the 2nd fret.

Intro Chords:   G  C  D  G

G                                C
Carolina highway, past boroughs and pine breaks

   G                             D
The road long behind me, every signpost reminds me

G                             C
My eyes have grown heavy, my wheels drone on steady

G              C             D        G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.

Chorus:

D                 C        G
I  been here forever, my whole life at least.

                            Em
Am              D
Trapped between morning optimism and night fleeting dreams.

G                            C
Here where it matters, where reality looms

G              C             D           G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.

G                     C
This road was a drug when I started way back

                         G               D
Each hill that I killed was like a pill that I took to relax.

G                          C
Till the peace in the valleys, got a little too peaceful

              G                D
All the ridges I  run and all that I  done

           G
has left me with eyes full.

G                    C
Eyes full of the worst, eyes full of the best

               G                D
Eyes full of the tiredness that won let me rest.



G                         C
All the places I go to, no place is brand new

G               C            D           G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.

Chorus

Solo

G                 C
Some people sit still, some people go fast

G                       D
Some go right to it, some never get past

G                    C
Laying a map out, they don plan just assume.

G                D                   G
And wind up forever in the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.

Chorus

G                  C
Here where it matters, where reality looms

     G         C             D           G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.

Outro chords:  G  C  D  G