Ben Folds Side of the Road song lyrics

You wait in the car on the side of the road

Let me go and stand a while

I want to know you're there, but I want to be alone

If only for a minute or two

I want to see what it feels like to leave without you

I want to feel the touch of my own skin

Against the sun, against the wind

I walked out in a field

The grass was high and it brushed against my legs

I just stood and looked out at the open space

At a farmhouse out a little ways

And I wondered about the people who lived in it

And I wondered if they were happy and content

Were there children and a man and a wife?

And did she love him and take her hair down at night?

If I stray too far from you

Don't go and try to find me

It doesn't mean that I don't love you

It don't mean that I won't come back and stay beside you

It only means that I need a little time

To follow that unbroken line

To a place where where the wild things grow

To a place where I always used to go

If only for a minute or two

I want to see what it feels like to be without you

I want to know the touch of my own skin

Against the sun, against the wind