Concrete on My Backroads

Yeah…

Used to be nothin’ but pines and peace out here…

Now it’s headlights and heartbreak

Feels like the world creepin’ in…

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I remember when the road was just gravel and prayer

No traffic, no noise, just open air

Now they buildin’ up condos where the corn used to grow

City lights crawlin’ in, takin’ over slow

Same way you did, damn, you moved in my chest

Started off sweet, then you tore up the rest

I was a calm kind of soul, soft like a hymn

Then heartbreak hit me like a shot of sin

Now every quiet place got a little more loud

Every pure thing got a shadow now

It’s like the world don’t give a shit ‘bout peace

Just wants more, more, more — never release

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Yeah, the city’s invadin’ these country roads

Like heartbreak invadin’ a heart that’s gold

Used to be love here, now it’s pain in the dust

Same damn story, just different rust

Concrete where the wildflowers used to be

Just like your goodbye still hauntin’ me

Damn… it’s hard watchin’ beauty get broke

Yeah, the city moves in like heartbreak smoke

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Used to hear crickets, now it’s sirens at night

Used to feel safe, now it don’t feel right

They pave over memories, call it “progress”

Just like you left and called it “honest”

I swear I loved you like a backroad song

Slow and steady, thought it’d last long

But you came in like a fast damn train

Left my soul cracked with a new kind of rain

Now I drink on a porch that don’t feel the same

Watchin’ my hometown lose its name

And I’m losin’ myself in the middle of change

Tryna stay good while I’m goin’ insane

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Yeah, the city’s invadin’ these country roads

Like heartbreak invadin’ a heart that’s gold

Used to be love here, now it’s pain in the dust

Same damn story, just different rust

Concrete where the wildflowers used to be

Just like your goodbye still hauntin’ me

Damn… it’s hard watchin’ beauty get broke

Yeah, the city moves in like heartbreak smoke

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And I ain’t sayin’ change is evil…

But it sure as hell hurts

When the things you loved start disappearin’

Right in front of you…

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So I’m drivin’ these roads with a heavy damn heart

Watchin’ the world tear the simple apart

Tryna keep faith in a place that’s shiftin’

Tryna keep love when my soul still missin’

Maybe one day I’ll find peace again

Somewhere the noise finally ends

But right now it’s just me and this broke-down view…

City on my backroads…

Heartbreak in me too…