Best Friend Over the Road

[Verse 1]
White lines
Cut through the dark again
Thermos coffee
And your name in my head
Every mile marker
Feels like a countdown
To the day I laid you down
[Chorus]
I’d give it all just to see you again
Every dollar, every heartbeat, every breath I spent
Money don’t matter, this road don’t end
If it don’t lead back to my best friend
Long hauls over the road, all I know
Is my mind only plays
Pictures of your casket close
[Verse 2]
Empty seat
Where you used to talk my ear off
Radio’s on
But I ride with it cut off
’Cause your laugh’s still louder
Than the engine’s low drone
In the quiet, I drive alone
[Chorus]
I’d give it all just to see you again
Every dollar, every heartbeat, every breath I spent
Money don’t matter, this road don’t end
If it don’t lead back to my best friend
Long hauls over the road, all I know
Is my mind only plays
Pictures of your casket close
[Bridge]
They say time
Can turn grief into grace
But this truck still chases shadows
Of your face
If there’s a last exit
Where we meet again
I’ll keep rolling till I find it, my friend (oh my friend)
[Chorus]
I’d give it all just to see you again
Every dollar, every heartbeat, every breath I spent
Money don’t matter, this road don’t end
If it don’t lead back to my best friend
Long hauls over the road, all I know
Is my mind only plays
Pictures of your casket close
Yeah, my mind only plays
Pictures of your casket close

Sparse piano ballad that blooms into an emotional country-rock chorus; male vocals with a weary, gritty tone. Verses stay intimate with close-mic vocal and soft pads, then drums and pedal steel lift the hook. Second pass through the chorus adds stacked harmonies and a subtle organ swell for catharsis.