Backroad To Your Door

Dust on the dashboard

Coffee in a chipped-up cup

Sun sneaks over pine tops

Painting every rut I cut

Got your name in the notes of an old love song

Radio low

But my thoughts are loud and long

I swore I’d let you go

So why’m I headed your way?

Is it just this empty seat

Or what I never got to say?

Backroad to your door

I swore I’d drive it nevermore

Yet every turn I take just points me where you are

Backroad to your door

Same old gravel

Something more

I’m chasing down a maybe like it’s written in the stars

Backroad to your door

I still know every scar

Your mailbox leans sideways

Still taped where we carved our names

Porch light off

But the swing still sings those summer games

I stop by the ditch where you kissed me

Laughing at my nerves

Funny how a strip of dirt can rattle what a man deserves

Did you pack up all our plans when you packed your clothes?

Or hide a little hope out here where the blacktop ends and slows?

Backroad to your door

I swore I’d drive it nevermore

Yet every turn I take just points me where you are

Backroad to your door

Same old gravel

Something more

I’m chasing down a maybe like it’s written in the stars

Backroad to your door

I still know every scar

If you open that door

Will you see the boy I was before?

Or this man with mud on his boots and an apology on his tongue?

If you’ve forgotten every mile we prayed for something true

Why does this busted old lane keep leading me back to you?

Backroad to your door

I swore I’d drive it nevermore

But my heart shifts gears and it pulls me through the dark

Backroad to your door

Same old gravel

Something more

If this is just a circle

Let me end where we first sparked

Backroad to your door

Or backroad from your