# The Long Straight

Track 13 of 17 on *All of It Was Ours* by Boots & Bassline, released 2026-09-18. 4:08.

An open road offers freedom, then shows its cost: no one waiting up.

For anyone with a long drive ahead.

A song for: a long drive ahead.

- Page: https://bootsandbassline.com/songs/the-long-straight
- Preview (25 s, MP3): https://bootsandbassline.com/audio/previews/all-of-it-was-ours/13-the-long-straight.mp3
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6PLkhFt15U2WkOTgOm8lcn
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-long-straight/6813657122?i=6813657135
- Artwork: https://bootsandbassline.com/assets/artist/all-of-it-was-ours/tracks/the-long-straight.png (An older car dashboard and cassette stereo facing a long western highway at sunset, with a guitar on the empty passenger seat.)
- Listening Room: https://bootsandbassline.com/listen?song=the-long-straight

## Lyrics

Came off an island you cross in a day
Woke to a country that won't end that way
One white line and it's pulling me on
Half the map still ahead by dawn

Coast at my back, coast I can't see
Nothing but blacktop in front of me

Out on the long straight
Free as I'll ever be
Out on the long straight
The whole map opening up for me
Woah-oh, woah-oh
Free as I'll ever be
Woah-oh, woah-oh
The whole map opening up for me

Freight train taking ten whole minutes by
Radio dies, just static and sky
Texas slipping back, the whole West to roam
A thousand miles from anything called home

Out on the long straight
Free as I'll ever be
Out on the long straight
The whole map opening up for me
Woah-oh, woah-oh
Free as I'll ever be
Woah-oh, woah-oh
The whole map opening up for me

No one waiting up, that's the cost of the dream
So much room to run, and no one to need me
You wanted to be free, well now you're free
Just you and the road and the used-to-be

Out on the long straight
Free as I'll ever be
Out on the long straight
The whole map opening up for me
Woah-oh, woah-oh
Free as I'll ever be
Woah-oh, woah-oh
The whole map opening up for me