[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Bridge]
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
[Pre-Final Chorus]
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
[Final Chorus]
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
[Outro]
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.
xMatthewxMurphyx
