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