Don’t come lookin

Verse 1]

Left my boots in the mud, don’t need ‘em no more

Left that key on your table, right next to the drawer

Where you hid your love like a loaded gun

I was already dead when this all begun

Ain’t no sunrise where I’m headed tonight

Just blacktop whispers and a dashboard light

Don’t waste a tear, don’t call my name

A ghost can’t come back to where he’s been blamed

If I go, I ain’t comin’ back

Let the wind take my soul off track

Ain’t no home for a man like me

Just miles of silence and used-to-be

If I die somewhere in the cracks

Write it down, don’t dress it in black

Just know I left…

And don’t come lookin’

You’ll lie to your friends, say I lost my mind

Say I drank too much or ran from time

But deep down, you know the truth you hide

I gave you my life… and you watched it die

I ain’t bitter, I’m just done

Done with bleeding for someone’s fun

You can keep the ring, keep the blame

I’m takin’ my pain and changin’ my name

If I go, I ain’t comin’ back

Don’t send prayers, don’t send a map

I ain’t lost, I just walked away

From a love that begged me not to stay

If I die, don’t dress it in black

Just carve these words on a railroad track:

“He left for good… and don’t come lookin’.”

I ain’t mad — I’m just free

First time I’ve felt like me

And if I fade into the trees

Let me be

Let me be

If I go, I ain’t comin’ back

Ain’t no songs gonna fill that gap

Let the night take what’s left of me

Bury it deep where love won’t see

And if I die on some no-name track

Don’t lie and say you’d take me back

Just say I left…

And don’t come lookin’.