“Slow Like Tennessee Rain”

There’s a porch light glow on an old dirt road

Crickets singing soft while the north wind blows

I got your flannel wrapped around my skin

Smells like cedar smoke and where you’ve been

You ain’t the kind that talks real big

But your hands say more every time they fit

Around my waist on a Friday night

Like you’re holding onto your whole damn life

And I fall for you slow like Tennessee rain

Little by little till you’re running through my veins

Like an old vinyl turning in the dark

You got your name written all across my heart

I don’t need diamonds, don’t need gold

Just your arms when the nights get cold

If forever’s just a front porch view

Baby, I could spend forever loving you

Your truck rolls in around midnight

Radio low with those yellow headlights

You kiss my forehead before my lips

Like you already know where my soul lives

Everybody says young love fades

But they ain’t seen the way you pray

For me when I’m hurting, when I can’t stand

You still look at me like I’m heaven-sent

And I fall for you slow like Tennessee rain

Little by little till you’re running through my veins

Like an old hymn humming through the pines

You’re the peace I spent my whole life trying to find

I don’t need diamonds, don’t need gold

Just your heartbeat when we grow old

If forever’s just a front porch view

Baby, I could spend forever loving you

So when my hair turns silver gray

And these hands show every mile and age

Promise me your name’ll still sound sweet

Every time it falls from me

Cause I’ll love you slow like a Sunday song

Long after these wild years are gone

And when the good Lord calls me home someday

I’ll still be loving you that way.