Running On Empty

Song Running On Empty
Artist Jackson Browne
Album The All Time Greatest Rock Songs Of The 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s

Lyrics

[00:00.27]
[00:22.17] Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
[00:29.12] Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
[00:35.96] In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
[00:43.04] I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on
[00:49.29] Running on, running on empty
[00:52.59] Running on, running blind
[00:56.19] Running on, running into the sun
[00:58.99] But I'm running behind
[01:04.18] Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
[01:11.16] Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
[01:18.15] In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
[01:25.21] I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on
[01:31.56] Running on, running on empty
[01:34.81] Running on, running blind
[01:38.49] Running on, running into the sun
[01:41.24] But I'm running behind
[02:07.64] Everyone I know, everywhere I go
[02:14.56] People need some reason to believe
[02:18.32] I don't know about anyone but me
[02:21.72] If it takes all night, that'll be all right
[02:28.51] If I can get you to smile before I leave
[02:35.87] Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
[02:42.83] I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
[02:49.80] I look around for the friends that I used to turn to, to pull me through
[02:56.74] Looking into their eyes I see them running too
[03:02.94] Running on, running on empty
[03:06.39] Running on, running blind
[03:09.96] Running on, running into the sun
[03:12.84] But I'm running behind
[03:18.06] Honey, you really tempt me
[03:20.97] You know the way you look so kind
[03:24.97] I'd love to stick around
[03:26.92] But I'm running behind
[03:31.21] Running on
[03:31.92] You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
[03:36.32] Running behind
[03:39.41] Running into the sun but I'm running behind