Not crying out my eyes this morning

Today was the last Friday I'll have to myself before Christmas.  Friday is usually the day younger daughter gets a lift both to and from school, so this morning, while she was having breakfast, I played the CBC Radio Two Morning Show while making my to-do list, and this song came on.  It was one of those "This is a great song; who is it?" moments.

Turns out it's Hawksley Workman, who was one of the musical guests at the Vinyl Cafe Christmas Concert three years ago. The song itself is more than a decade old, but I often don't notice songs for years. It's a good song for being stuck in traffic -- thank goodness I wasn't.

The brake lights
Are really quite lovely
Thousands of souls
All stopping together

On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes
On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes

The city
Starts fading behind us
Thousands of souls all wishing
Things were better

Sadness
Is waiting to happen
For people like us
Not sure where they're going

On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes
On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes

Watching the fading
Watch everything go by.
(everything go by, everything go by, everything go by...)

On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes

Sadness
Is waiting to happen
But we have our eyes
Set dead on the ocean

On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes