I'm Gone (On The Road)
( Brake/ O'Connor/ Yarnelle ) from the Ball State Sessions
Back in the winter of '05, On The Brink went into the recording studio for the first time since "Somewhere Under Bethel." The band was now a four piece and it was a new line up with J.D. on lead vocals. The band recorded a song that at first was a total spoof. It started with a simple chord pattern, a bass line, drums, and solos...and no, this wasn't based on Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road." I'm not sure if the band even reads books. Maybe pop-up books.
"I remember playing in that dingy old basement on Ball St. and playing this song that sounded like a road song or travel song. It kind of sounded like "Turn the Page" by Bob Seger which is all about life on the road. I remember just making up words about how I was leaving this girl again and this was the last time I was coming back. The song grew on us and we played it live and then it became an instant classic. People loved that song. Some still beg us to play it. This song will probably never be put on an album, but if the crowd wants it...we'll play it." - John David Brake
V1
Well it's 3am on a Friday night and I'm drivin' though the pale moonlight
I start to think about what I left behind
I think about the night before and the note you left on my bedroom door
How can our true love be so blind?
Well it's, been a month or maybe two since I last laid next to you,
You know it's killing me each time you beg me stay.
So I step outside in the pouring rain, I'm trying hard to ease this pain,
I gotta leave this place, I gotta get away.
Chorus
I'm on the road (x3)
Cause baby I'm gone again and I won't be coming home
I'm on the road (x3)
Cause baby I'm gone again and I won't be coming home
V2
Well the time has passed, another year gone,and I still think about what went wrong,
and how our hopes and dreams, they all fade to black.
Well ya say it's never meant to be, then why's your love still haunting me,
But I travel on, never to look back.
Chorus
Well the time has passed, another year gone,and I still think about what went wrong,
and how our hopes and dreams, they all fade to black.
Well ya say it's never meant to be, then why's your love still haunting me,
But I travel on, never to look back.
