[Verse 1]
You left your boots in the back of my Chevy
Red clay dried on the floorboard mat
Said you "might come get ‘em someday, maybe"
Guess this small town’s bigger than the way you packed
My friends still ask if you’re comin’ to the game
Your seat’s still marked with my old letter jacket
I play it cool, say I forgot your name
But my phone lights up with your face in the blackness
[Chorus]
This ain’t how the story’s s’posed to go
Thought we’d grow old down this one-lane road
Now it’s just me and this echo in my cab
Heartbreak on the dash, bass in the back
Yeah, I crank it till the rearview shakes
Try to drown out every choice we made
If love was the hit, then I’m the comeback track
Heartbreak on the dash, bass in the back
[Verse 2]
Got your brush in the visor like a ghost ridin’ shotgun
Your hair still caught in the seams of my seat
I rap these verses to the cornfields at sundown
Spillin’ every secret that you took from me
Mama says “boy, let that girl go” (let her go)
But your name rides the hi-hat in every bar
I pour my hurt in a solo on this Tele
Let the strings say what you left in my heart
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Tailgate down, I confess to the stars
“Yeah, I messed up, you messed up, we both wore our scars”
If you hear this on some late-night drive
Just know I kept your side of the bed warm, alive
[Chorus]