Following the footsteps   That you gave me, I walked out alone,   Highway stretching out in front of me      There I saw the billboards   And the smoke from the refinery   Where the open sky had used to be      Passing through the small towns   With their clapboard houses beaten down   I could hear the distant church bell ring      There, beneath the maple trees   It all comes rushing back to me   A simple thing forgotten long ago   Long ago   Long ago   I heard those bells toll.      I walk alone   I am on a lonely road   I walk alone   Just see the roadside flowers, look how they have grown      I have been in cities where   The multitudes enveloped me   Stations and the depots felt so cold      Looked up at the city spires,   They couldn't build them any higher,   A giant's teeth were clenched around my soul      I walked along the riverside   To watch the changing of the tides   Tryin' to find some treasure in this place      Then my eyes were opened wide   When I saw the blood-red tide   And the black cloud hanging over me   Over me   Over me   Hanging over me      I walk alone   I am on the lonely road   I walk alone   To see the roadside flowers, look how they have grown      Hey, hey      Uphill the road of factories   Reminding me of battlefields   Where our brightest promises were lost      Overcome by fire and steel,   Groaning for humanity,   A thousand voices drowning in that road      While, this is Mr. Harriman -   He built his stakes on railroad blood,   Rolling in his comforts and his spoils      With the wind, we headed west   Taking little time rest   Felt the prairies burning under me   Under me   Under me   Burning under me      I walk alone   I am on a lonely road   I walk alone   Just see the roadside flowers, look how they have grown      I walk alone   I am on a lonely road   I walk alone   To see the roadside flowers, look how they have grown      Yeah (I am on a lonely road)   [repeat chorus]