Running On Empty - Jacksone Browne - 1977
Lyrics

Lookin out at the road rushin under my wheels.
Lookin back at the years gone by,
Like so many summer fields.
'65 I was seventeen
And runnin' up one to one.
I don't know where I'm running now
I'm just running on.

Running on, running on empty,
Running on, running blind,
Running into the sun,
But I'm running behind.

Got to do what you can just to keep your love alive.
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive.
'69 I was tewnty-one and I called the road my own,
I don't know when that road turned on to the road I'm on.

Running on, rinning on empty,
Running on, running blind
Running into to sun,
But I'm running behind.

Everyone I know, everywhere I go,
People need some reason to believe,
I don't know about anyone but me.
If it takes all night, that'll be alright.
If I can get you to smile before I leave.

Lookin out at the road rushing under my wheels.
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels.
Look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running too.

Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind
Running into the sun,
But I'm running behind.

Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind,
I'd love to stick around, but I'm running behind.
Running on
You know, I don't even know what I'm hoping to find.
Runnin' blind
Running into the sun but I'm running behind.
More Trivia

According to Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs, Browne wrote this while he was driving back and forth to the studio each day to make The Pretender. He said, "I was always driving around with no gas in the car, I just never bothered to fill up the tank because - how far was it anyway? Just a few blocks."

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