[Verse 1]
Sand in my boots
Dust in my teeth
Got your picture in my pocket
Like a shield on me
Twenty-two days
Since I heard you laugh
Counting down sunsets
On this foreign path
[Chorus]
I got boots in the red dirt
Heart back home
Prayin’ every loaded truck
Takes me closer to y’all (oh)
I keep my head down
So I can lift you up
Yeah I’m fighting through the fire
Just to feel your touch
Boots in the red dirt
Heart back home
[Verse 2]
They said “son be strong”
When they shook my hand
Now it’s night-vision green
Over someone else’s land
But I still hear my girl
Reading bedtime lines
Hear my boy ask “Daddy
When you comin’ this time?”
[Chorus]
I got boots in the red dirt
Heart back home
Prayin’ every loaded truck
Takes me closer to y’all (yeah)
I keep my head down
So I can lift you up
Yeah I’m fighting through the fire
Just to feel your touch
Boots in the red dirt
Heart back home
[Bridge]
[Beat drops to guitar and low vocal]
If I gotta run miles with my pack on broke
I’ll run ‘til the laces and my lungs both smoke
If I gotta stand tall when the fear gets loud
I’ll stand with your names like a flag in the crowd
’Cause every long march
Every rough night
Is just one more step
To your porch light
[Chorus]
I got boots in the red dirt
Heart back home
Prayin’ every loaded truck
Takes me closer to y’all (oh yeah)
I keep my head down
So I can lift you up
Yeah I’m fighting through the fire
Just to feel your touch
Boots in the red dirt
Heart back home
Boots in the red dirt
On my way home