To play along with the CD, capo at the 2nd fret. 
 
Intro Chords:   G  C  D  G 

G                                C
Carolina highway, past boroughs and pine breaks 
 
   G                             D
The road long behind me, every signpost reminds me 
 
G                             C
My eyes have grown heavy, my wheels drone on steady 
 
G              C             D        G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon. 
 
Chorus: 
 
D                 C        G
I  been here forever, my whole life at least. 
 
                            Em 
Am              D
Trapped between morning optimism and night fleeting dreams. 
 
G                            C
Here where it matters, where reality looms 
 
G              C             D           G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon. 
 
G                     C
This road was a drug when I started way back 
 
                         G               D
Each hill that I killed was like a pill that I took to relax. 
 
G                          C
Till the peace in the valleys, got a little too peaceful 
 
              G                D
All the ridges I  run and all that I  done 
 
           G
has left me with eyes full. 
 
G                    C
Eyes full of the worst, eyes full of the best 
 
               G                D
Eyes full of the tiredness that won let me rest. 
 
 
 
G                         C
All the places I go to, no place is brand new 
 
G               C            D           G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon. 
 
Chorus 
 
Solo 
 
G                 C
Some people sit still, some people go fast 
 
G                       D
Some go right to it, some never get past 
 
G                    C
Laying a map out, they don plan just assume. 
 
G                D                   G
And wind up forever in the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon. 
 
Chorus 
 
G                  C
Here where it matters, where reality looms 
 
     G         C             D           G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon. 
 
Outro chords:  G  C  D  G