Slow it down

Slow it down, put your roots in the dirt

Learn the kind of healing only hard times work

Tie up the loose ends, board up the pain

Stand through the thunder and the pouring rain

We were burning down highways chasing neon lights

Living like tomorrow was a bar fight every night

Running on fumes and a broken-down prayer

Too busy climbing to breathe in the air

Ground these hearts like old oak trees

Strong enough to bend with the breeze

We spent too long trying to outrun life

Now we’re tightening up and getting it right

Plant a little garden where the wild weeds grew

Patch the holes in the walls we’ve been crashing through

Front porch coffee and a steady hand

A little less dreaming, a little more land

There’s peace in the quiet after years of noise

In fishing lines cast and old dog toys

Ain’t rich in money, but rich enough now

To watch the sunset without asking how

Slow it down, let the good earth speak

Find the strength inside the worn-out weak

Build it strong with love and scars

Not with runaway roads and rusted cars

The world keeps spinning fast as hell

But peace ain’t something you can buy or sell

It’s a hand to hold and a place called home

Not another highway left to roam

So slow it down, put your roots in the dirt

Hold onto the people and the things that work

No more drifting through the night

We’re making roots and holding tight.