Drawing of Jack Kerouac by Emily Wood
Benjamin gibbard & jay Farrar, one fast Move or I’m Gone
from: Music from Kerouac’s big sur, 2009
“This river of road
It don’t flow like it used to
But it’s more of a home
Than anywhere that I’ve ridden it to
And we used to dream together
But now I drink alone
And from the bottle to the tumbler
Is the only journey left I know
And in my memory’s depths, I retrace my steps
I cannot find where I went wrong
It was one fast move or I’m gone
I found out at an early age
I could make anything [?]
Disappear or cease to exist
If I turned my back to it
And the interstates, they don’t connect
Where you are to what you’ve left
And the ghosts of our dreams
Haunt the roads in between
Though nothing could compare to the love we share
It just didn’t have a place to belong
It was one fast move or I’m gone”
The illustrator Paul Rodgers did an illustrations in response to a line he found in every page of Kerouac’s “On The Road.”