[Verse 1]
I fled with shrapnel in my chest
And left my wife where she fell
The road was dust, the sky was fire
The kind of day no words can tell
Three days gone and from my lips
The same four words keep breaking free
She is my wife
I am her husband
That’s who we’ll always be
[Verse 2]
The day before she tied her scarf
And brushed the dust from off her shoes
She laughed at something I had said
The kind of thing you’d never lose
She kissed my cheek and turned away
Like there’d be time for us again
No one wakes and says goodbye
Believing that’s the end
[Chorus]
The road keeps going west
The sun keeps crossing overhead
One foot, then another
That’s what the living said
I don’t know where tomorrow is
I only know what’s left
A wound beneath my ribs
And your name inside my chest
[Verse 3]
My chest was wrapped, my eye was dark
My brother couldn’t bear his weight
The road stretched out beyond the dust
And never paused for love or fate
We rode through days I barely knew
Through names and places blurred by pain
Some mornings I forgot to breathe
Until my feet began again
[Chorus]
The road keeps going west
The sun keeps crossing overhead
One foot, then another
That’s what the living said
I don’t know where tomorrow is
I only know what’s left
A wound beneath my ribs
And your name inside my chest
[Verse 4]
She knew the widows by their names
And carried grain from door to door
She’d count the children in the line
Then somehow find a little more
She never spoke of sacrifice
She’d only shrug and say, “They need”
The kind of soul that leaves a mark
In every life she chose to feed
[Bridge]
A stranger shares her only bread
One tired hand helps lift the load
A mother takes another child
And walks with them along the road
I see those moments when they come
And feel her in the things they do
The world still carries fingerprints
Of all the lives she carried through
[Final Chorus]
The road keeps going west
The sun keeps crossing overhead
One foot, then another
That’s what the living said
I don’t know where tomorrow is
But I see you in what’s left
A wound beneath my ribs
And your name inside my chest
[Outro]
A stranger shares her only bread
One tired hand helps lift the load
And for a moment there you are
Walking beside me on the road
She is my wife
I am her husband
That’s who we’ll always be
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