Ingrid Michaelson - Highway w/ lyrics

Girls and Boys CD version of Ingrid Michaelson singing "Highway."

Lyrics:

On a highway along the Atlantic
I'm rifling through these last 17 years.
The radio waxes romantic.
It's lullabies fill our eyes with tears.

We don't say a word.
There's nothing to say that hasn't been heard.
And how you've grown my little bird.
I'm regretting letting you fly.

6 pounds and 7 ounces.
A ball of bones and flesh and tears were you.
Now your hands, your tiny pink hands,
grew larger than my hands ever grew.

We don't say a word.
There's nothing to say that hasn't been heard.
And how you've grown my little bird.
I'm regretting letting you fly.
I'm regretting letting you fly.
I'm regretting letting you fly.

On a highway. On a highway.

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[GreenbeeN8]

is it just me or can anybody else hear children playing in the background?...O.o.. any way nice vid :)

[82lyricalfairygrl]

@GreenbeeN8 Yeah, that's part of the song.

[Mandamaywhoviay]

I don't understand how anyone would suggest this song was about anyone BUT a child. "How you've grown my little bird" "6 pounds and 7 ounces, ball of bones and flesh and tears were you." DEFINITELY that's talking about a baby.

beautiful song :)

[82lyricalfairygrl]

@Mandamaywhoviay I feel the same.

[MissVixx]

nice video. d'you think this song is autobiographical? It sounds like she's talking about a baby that she let up for adoption...

[82lyricalfairygrl]

@MissVixx

I'm not sure, but that's exactly what it sounds like she's talking about to me, too. I think that's why it makes the song so sad & beautiful.

[JessePowersMusic]

sounds like she is talking about herself. Or maybe a mom taking her child to college?

[kenneyknnn]

Great Song, Beautiful Voice. Thanks for sharing.

[shgv48]

@JessePowersMusic I always imagined a couple who had just lost a child. I pictured their tense and mournful car ride home. 

[goldtone23]

@Kosna88 my thoughts exactly!

[TheSydroxmysox2]

haha i thought this would be the scary car commercial!!!

[Kosna88]

it sounds like a mum taking her daughter off to college? she could've written about when her mum/dad drove her to college. that's what it sounds like to me :)

[Lubbygirl1]

This song is definitely not about giving up a child for adoption. This is a song about a mom letting her child go because he or she grew up. It says "i'm rifling through these last seventeen years." Overall this song is very beautilful!