[Intro: Acoustic Guitar Strum]
(Yeah, let's go)
(Turn the wheels)
(Listen close now)
[Verse 1]
I spent too long looking at a flashing yellow light (Flashing light)
Trying to make a wrong turn feel like it was right
Driving through the shadows of a preacher's heavy smoke
Treating my own heartbreak like a cosmic joke
But I cleared the dashboard, threw the map away (Threw it out!)
I'm trading all the midnight games for the break of day! (Break of day!)
[Pre-Chorus]
Three years on the graveyard shift, but you're welcoming the sun
Changing up your rhythm for the life that we've begun... (We just begun)
If I could chase the chaos for over an hour in the night
Why haven't I given the steady ground a chance to make it right? (Make it right!)
[Beat Drop]
[Chorus]
And it’s seventy-five miles out to Reading tonight! (Seventy-five miles!)
No more hiding in the dark, I’m stepping in the light!
You’re the first shift rising like a sun on the hill
A quiet kind of steady that makes the world stand still
No pullback, no running, no rushing for the door
Yeah, I finally found what I was driving for! (Driving for!)
[Post-Chorus]
Seventy-five miles, yeah, seventy-five miles (Rollin' on)
First shift rising, see the highway smile
No pulling away, no, you stayed right near
Everything is beautiful, everything is clear! (Get it!)
[Verse 2]
Grounded Christian roots, rewriting those Witness lines
Two Irish twins who finally learned to read the signs (I see you, yeah)
You’ve got your daughter, got your boy navigating through the clear
And I don’t feel like a distraction when I'm standing right here (Right here)
'Cause when the morning broke, the walls didn't appear
Intimacy over and over, keeping you right near (Keeping you near)
[Bridge]
You didn't pull away... (No) you didn't rush to wash the skin (Never that!)
You stayed right by my side, letting the genuine warmth pour in (Pour it in, baby)
No more watering a hollow seed, begging for a crumb
Yeah, look at what we've begun! (Look what we started!)
[Fiddle Solo: High Energy Country]
(Woo! Play it!)
[Chorus]
And it’s seventy-five miles out to Reading tonight! (Seventy-five miles!)
No more hiding in the dark, I’m stepping in the light!
You’re the first shift rising like a sun on the hill
A quiet kind of steady that makes the world stand still
No pullback, no running, no rushing for the door
Yeah, I finally found what I was driving for!
[Post-Chorus]
Seventy-five miles, yeah, seventy-five miles (Rollin' on)
First shift rising, see the highway smile
No pulling away, no, you stayed right near
Everything is beautiful, everything is clear!
[Outro]
Saturday night in Reading... (Saturday night)
You stayed right here. (You stayed right here)
No more night shifts. (No more)
First shift rising. (Rising up)
Just the sun. (Ooh, just the sun)
Steady ground, yeah. (Steady ground)
[Fade Out]
[End]
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