You and me

You'd roll in at dawn

Diesel dust in your hair

Boots by the door

Like you'd never left there

Eighteen wheels humming

Somewhere still in your eyes

But you laid in that bed

Like you had all the time

Eighteen wheels and John Wayne on the TV

Black coffee breath and your arm around me

Static on the radio

You sang every line off-key

Country

Rockabilly

Old time harmony

I was just a kid but you made me believe

A good man keeps on loving when it's hard to breathe

Eighteen wheels and John Wayne

That was you and me

Backyard afternoon

Tin cans on a string

You handed me that BB gun

Said

"Let me show you one more thing"

I flinched

It kicked

Heard you cuss

Saw you bleed

Thought I'd broke the whole world

Dropped down on my knees

Eighteen wheels and John Wayne on the TV

You laughed through the pain

Said

"Baby girl

You're still my baby"

Bandage on your stomach

But your hand still covered me

Country

Rockabilly

Old time harmony

I was just a kid

So scared you'd leave

But a good man keeps on loving

Even when he bleeds

Eighteen wheels and John Wayne

That was you and me

I didn't get it then

How tired you must've been

Driving all night just to sit and pretend

That the ranch on the screen

Was our little town

You were my hero

Just laying that burden down (yeah)

Eighteen wheels and John Wayne on the TV

Now I hear those songs that we would listen to in your 18 wheeler and I sing my heart out

I still hope my son

Grows up being

Half the man you are

The way you carried me

Eighteen wheels and John Wayne

That was you and me

Eighteen wheels and John Wayne

That's still you and me