Engine is hot and the wind is wild,
Come on, darling, don't tarry,
Aren't you weary of dreams and hard luck schemes'
This'll be our sanctuary, well,
Car is warm from the chill outside that can creep into your bones,
I was trying to remember if I'd brought everything, but there's nothing that you really own.

Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
You can never go back again.

We have tried for years to play by their rules on the ladder of success,
And I was stepping up to make the first rung and saw this vision of my brokenness,
Well then, since that time I became an inspector,
Storm damage done for life,
I've been picking up the pieces of my might-have-beens and I hold them up to the light.

Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
You can never go back again.

Far as the east is from the west, deeper than the deepest ocean,
I've been running all my life on borrowed feelings, devoid of emotion,
And the windshield wipers are counting time too heavy for us to carry,
Oh, was that a whisper of the Holy Ghost'
This'll be our sanctuary.

Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
You can never go back again,
Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
Caution to the wind,
You can never go back again.