Two-By-Four (A Drive Through My Personal World)

Racing over night roads in a car that's not mine,

Smacked by musical two-by-fours in four-four time,

I think back fifty pounds ago—twenty-odd years.

I'm still moved by the same wants, the same lack of fears,

and even the music I play is the same.

So every new challenge I shrink from or tame,

The new people I meet in the places I see

Change the length of my story, but never change me,

and the night road I drive? It's a loop or a heart.

When the twists are all totaled, I end where I start.