Wished you was here

Twenty years can disappear before you know they’re gone

One day you’re loading up the car, next day the kids move on

Now I’m rolling through another state with another load to haul

Thinking about the years behind us and how fast it changed it all

I’ve seen deserts in Arizona, Rocky Mountains covered white

Watched the sun sink into Texas and paint the whole sky gold at night

And every time I find a place that makes me stop and stare

I catch myself wishing somehow you were standing there

I wish you could see this

The mountains, the rivers, the towns beyond the signs

The little places hidden out between the county lines

I’ve crossed this country coast to coast more times than I can count

And somewhere along the way I started thinking about

How you’ve never seen these highways through the windshield like I do

And every time the view gets better, I wish you could see it too

Now Zachary’s twenty, making his own way through the world

McKenzie’s eighteen, no longer Daddy’s little girl

And Sebastian keeps surprising me with things he somehow knows

Seeing the world a little different than most kids his age would show

Seems like yesterday they filled the house with noise from room to room

Now life moves a little faster every year that passes through

And somewhere between the school years and the miles I’ve traveled on

I looked around one day and realized where all the time had gone

When summer’s over and Sebastian heads back home once more

I’ll point this truck toward another state like I’ve done before

And somewhere between the miles and all the places passing through

I’ll probably think about those days

Back when you were pregnant and riding right beside me

Before twenty years of life got in the way of everything

And wonder what you’d think now seeing all the things I’ve seen

Would you still take a hundred pictures every time we wandered out

Would you sit there by the window watching mountains rolling by

The way you used to ride beside me back before the years flew by

Sometimes I can almost see you

In the passenger seat again

Talking through the miles like time never moved ahead

And for a moment it don’t feel like twenty years have gone

It just feels like another road and another dawn

I wish you could see this

The sunrise over oceans and the stars above the plains

The beauty hiding everywhere beyond the stress and daily strain

I’ve driven millions of miles but one thought still shines through

Every time I see something beautiful

I wish you could see it too

Twenty years, three kids, and a million memories behind

Another highway stretching west beneath a fading sky

And somewhere past the next horizon, painted gold and blue

I’m still wishing you could see it too.