Every Highway

Coffee gone cold in a paper cup

Map on the dash

All folded up

Mile after mile of the same old signs

Yellow lines cutting through my life

Every town says stay a while

Every barroom knows my name

But I keep chasing something wild

In the dark past the exit lanes

Every highway

Keeps pulling me away

From every promise

I swore that I would stay

I leave a little of my heart in the rearview

Fading

Every highway

Knows the way I'm breaking (hey!)

Static from a station I can barely get

Photo on the visor that I can’t forget

You in the frame with that summer grin

I hit the gas when the ache kicks in

Every mile writes one more line

In a story I can’t rewrite

I keep choosing dotted white

Over porch lights every night

Every highway

Keeps pulling me away

From every promise

I swore that I would stay

I leave a little of my heart in the rearview

Fading

Every highway

Knows the way I'm breaking

Maybe there’s an off-ramp with your name

Maybe there’s a driveway I can claim

But ‘til I find that turn I missed

It’s just taillights and empty fists (oh yeah)

Every highway

Keeps pulling me away

From every promise

I swore that I would stay

I leave a little of my heart in the rearview

Fading

Every highway

Keeps calling out my name

Every highway

Knows I’ll never be the same