Gravel South

Left town on a half-full tank

Didn’t fix a thing, didn’t say thanks

Some places teach you how to stay

Some just teach you how to walk away

Dust in my shoes, sun going down

Every mile feels less like home

I don’t hate the place I’m from

I just couldn’t breathe there long

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I didn’t run

I just stopped standing still

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I’m headed gravel south

Where the road don’t promise much

Just a line through open land

And a reason not to rush

Gravel south

No map, no sound

Just tires learning how to hum

Gravel south

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Radio fades between the towns

Static knows me better now

Every sign looks hand-me-down

Every dream costs less out here

I’ve slept in cars and borrowed beds

Learned how quiet clears the head

Some nights I miss what I lost

Most nights I don’t look back

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I stopped waiting on a sign

Started trusting my feet

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I’m headed gravel south

Past the lies I couldn’t fix

Where the truth don’t need a stage

And forgiveness comes in bits

Gravel south

Worn and slow

But it takes me where I’m going

Gravel south

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Maybe I’ll settle

Maybe I won’t

Maybe the point

Is knowing I don’t have to know

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(Keep rolling…)

(Don’t look back…)

(Every mile…)

(Cuts the slack…)

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I’m headed gravel south

Where the sky don’t judge my name

Where the past rides quiet

In the backseat of the rain

Gravel south

Ain’t lost, just free

Some roads don’t lead you somewhere

They just let you be

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Sun drops low

Dust hangs around

If this is nowhere

I’ll take it now