Cracked winshield
crumpled up cans and a beat up bag of red man chew
fix a flat, jonny cash box set
half a dozen parking ickets that i aint paid yet
litten on that long bed seat
i got my shot gun girl right next to me

CHORUS:four wheel turnin
Two hearts burnin
we go runnin wild
gonna make a million
memories for every hundred
thousand miles
learnin everything i'l ever need
to know about life and love
in the cab of my truck

sliden rear
back window
so it's an easy reach to where my cooler keeps em iced down cold
roll of duck tape, W D 40
ain;t nothin too loose or licked too tight for a man like me
yeah, I might take it slow
30 through town
on a back dirt road
girl i put the hammer down

CHORUS

down by the river, two bodies in the glow of the radio dial
gonna make a million memories for every hundred thousand miles
i'm learnin everything e'll ever need to know about life and love
in the cab of my truck
in the cab of my truck

man i can't find anything in this truck
oh, what's this? a little white tank top
Get out of my way cadilac, big white's commin through

I'm gonna build a fire in the middle of July
Burn your pictures and go for a drive
Down to the river and watch the ink from your love letters fade
Come back home turn that old mattress over
Pour out the whiskey try wakin' up sober
Gonna change it all tonight, gonna do whatever it takes

I lost weight
I lost hair
And I don't intened to ever go back there
Drinkin' and a think' 'bout a love that just wasn't true
And there's a good chance I'll end up insane
Without enough sense to come in from the rain
My mind might be the last thing you make me lose
But, I'll forget about you

I heard that ol' Jones song just the other day
'Bout a man who took that ol' broken heart to his grave
But, I'll be damned if a memorie's gonna lay me down
I might be walkin' around with a head full of air
Actin' kinda crazy but I don't care
This heart's barely beating, but I'll still be above the ground

I lost weight
I lost hair
And I don't intened to ever go back there
Drinkin' and a think' 'bout a love that just wasn't true
And there's a good chance I'll end up insane
Without enough sense to come in from the rain
My mind might be the last thing you make me lose
But, I'll forget about you

I lost sleep
I lost years
And there ain't no tellin' how many tears
My mind's gonna be the last thing you make me lose
But, I'll forget about you
I'll forget about you
I'll forget about you

Pair of boots and a sack of clothes
Free and easy down the road I go
Hangin' memories on the high line poles
Free and easy down the road I go
Free and easy down the road I go

Ragweed's rockin' on the radio
Free and easy down the road I go
So I keep rollin' like and old banjo
Free and easy down the road I go

Got the sun shinin' on me like a big spotlight
So I know everything is gonna be alright

Ain't no tellin' where the wind might blow
Free and easy down the road I go
Livin' life like a Sunday stroll
Free and easy down the road I go
Free and easy down the road I go

If you only get to go around one time
I'm gonna sit back and try to enjoy the ride

I could make a million or wind up broke
Free and easy down the road I go
Can't take it with you when you go
Free and easy down the road I go
Someday I know it's gonna take me home
Free and easy down the road I go
Free and easy down the road I go

I must look just like a fool, here in the middle of the road,
Standin' there in your rearview, gettin' soaked to the bone
This land is flat as it is mean, a man can see for a hundred miles
So I'm still prayin' I might see, the glow of a brake light

But your wheels just turn, down the road ahead
If it hurts at all, you ain't showed it yet
I keep lookin' for the slightest sign
That you might miss, what you left behind
I know there's nothin' stopping you now
But I'd settle for a slowdown

I held on longer than I should, believin' you might change your mind
And those bright lights of Hollywood, would fade in time

repeat chorus

But your wheels just turn, down the road ahead
If it hurts at all, you ain't showed it yet
You're just a tiny dot, on that horizon line
Come on tap those brakes, baby just one time
I know there's nothin' stoppin' you now
I'm not asking you to turn back around
I'd settle for a slowdown
Come on just slowdown
I'd settle for a slowdown

Country Roads, old theatre marquee signs;
Parkin' lots, and billboards flyin' by.
Spanish mosques, little hick town squares;
Wild roses on a river bank: girl its almost like you're there

Oh, every mile, a memory; every song, another scene,
From some old movie going back in time you and me.
Every day, a page turned down; every night, a lonesome sound,
Like a freight train rollin' through my dreams:
Every mile, a memory.

Red sun down, out across the western sky,
Takes me back to the fire in your eyes.
Texas stars in a purple night.
Not seein' 'em with you baby: oh, they never do it right, no.

Every mile, a memory; every song, another scene,
From some old movie going back in time you and me.
Every day, a page turned down; every night, a lonesome sound,
Like a freight train rollin' through my dreams:
Every mile, a memory.

Funny how no matter where I run,
Round every bend I only see,
Just how far I haven't come.

Every mile, a memory; every song, another scene,
From some old movie going back in time you and me.
Every day, a page turned down; every night, a lonesome sound,
Like a freight train rollin' through my dreams:
Every mile, a memory;
Every mile, a memory;
Every mile, a memory.

That ole picture frame keeps hangin round
I ain't ready yet to take it down
Every now and then I'll slam the door
Shake it loose and she'll hit the floor
But I can't throw a good thing away
I wish it would break

And I swear my trucks got a haunted radio
Cause I hear you in every song
But I know what the silence makes me do
So I give those buttons more abuse
I wonder how much punchin it can take
I wish it would break

There I could move on, right on down the line
Where I don't see you, need you, in my life
You're wrapped around me
Your memories bound me like a chain
I wish it would break

This ole hearts got a mind of it's own
It's decided not to let you go
And even though your love's no longer here
It won't let me shed one tear
Cause it's still holdin on to yesterday
I wish it would break

There I could move on, right on down the line
Where I don't see you, need you, in my life
You're wrapped around me
Your memories bound me like a chain
I wish it would break

I wish it would break
Yeah, I wish it would break
Go on and break

I learned how to write it
When I first started school
Some bully didn't like it
He said it didn't sound too cool

So I had to hit him
And all I said when the blood came
"That's my last name"

Grampa took it off to Europe
To fight the Germans in the war
It came back on some dog tags
Nobody wears no more
It's written on some headstone
In the field where he was slain
It's my last name

Passed down from generations
Too far back to trace
I can see all my relations
When I look into my face
I'll never make it famous
But I'll never bring it shame
It's my last name

Daddy always told me
Far back as I recall
"Son you're part of something
You represent us all
So keep it how you got it
As solid as it came
It's my last name"

Passed down from generations
Too far back to trace
I can see all my relations
When I look into my face
I'll never make it famous
But I'll never bring it shame
It's my last name

So darlin if you're wonderin
Why I've got you here tonight
I wanna be your husband
I want you to be my wife
I ain't got much to give you
But what I've got means everything
It's my last name

Oh, it's my last name

I learned how to write it
When I first started school

It's a long trip alone over sand and stone
That lie along the road that we all must travel down

So maybe you could walk with me a while
And maybe I could rest beneath your smile
Everybody stumbles sometimes and needs a hand to hold
'Cause it's a long trip alone

It's a short piece of time but just enough to find
A little peace of mind under the sun somewhere

So maybe you could walk with me a while
And maybe I could rest beneath your smile
You know we can't afford to let one moment pass us by
'Cause it's a short piece of time

And I don't know where I'd be without you here
'Cause I'm not really me without you there

Yea Yeah
Hallelujah hallelujah oh

So maybe you could walk with me a while
Maybe I could rest beneath your smile
Everybody stumbles sometimes and needs a hand to hold

So maybe you could walk with me a while
Maybe I could rest beneath your smile
Maybe I could feel right beside you 'til I'm home
'Cause it's a long trip alone

Take your suitcase, take your heart
Take a train into the dark
My love with follow you
My love with follow you

You can try to lose yourself downtown
You can burn all your bridges down
My love will follow you
My love will follow you

My love will follow you
Down every highway of your soul
You can leave it all behind
My love will be your shadow
Everywhere you go

So close the door, turn the key
Leave me here like a memory
My love will follow you
My love will follow you

Even on a road that takes you down
Where the chords of human kindness come unwound
My love will follow you
My love will follow you

My love will follow you
Down every highway of your soul
You can leave it all behind
My love will be your shadow
Everywhere you go

If you should ever go so far, that you cannot get back
Girl, you may not remember
But, my heart will not lose track

So, go ahead and take that train
In my heart, you will remain
My love will follow you
My love will follow you
My love will follow you

Girl, I caught you in your little white lie
Red-handed, red-handed
You said you had to work tonight
But here you are dancin, slow dancin
In this honky tonk with someone else
And all you've got to say for yourself is "So..."
So? I'm sorry... so?

So, so long, bye bye baby
I'll catch you on the flip side maybe
Don't you slip slide on a tear when you find me gone
Go, go on cry cry baby
Those tears are gonna drip-dry maybe
But you're gonna miss my good love baby for so, so long
So, so long

Let me buy you a goodbye drink
Make it a double, a double
Cause I've seen everything I need to see
You're nothin but trouble, big trouble
And one other thing before I go
I wanna tell you that I think you're so, so, so...
Aw, I ain't gonna sink that low

So, so long, bye bye baby
I'll catch you on the flip side maybe
Don't you slip slide on a tear when you find me gone
Go, go on cry cry baby
Those tears are gonna drip-dry maybe
But you're gonna miss my good love baby for so, so long
So, so long

I bet you think I'm gonna let it slide
The way you're flashing those puppy dog eyes
Right? Yeah, right. Right?
Wrong.

So, so long, bye bye baby
I'll catch you on the flip side maybe
Don't you slip slide on a tear when you find me gone
G-go on cry cry baby
Those tears are gonna drip-dry maybe
But you're gonna miss my good love baby for so, so long
For so, so long

So, so long

See ya.

come a little closer baby
i feel like layin you down
an a bed of sweet surrender where we
can work it all out
there ain't nothin that love can't fix
girl it's right here at our finger tips
so come a little closer baby
i feel like layin you down
some a little closer baby
i feel like lettin go
of everything that stand between us
and the love we used to know
i wanna touch you like a crimson robe
and let it wash all youu hurt away
so come a little closer baby
i feel like lettin go

if there's still a chance than take my hand
and we'll steal away
off into the night
until we make things right
the sun's gonna rise, on a better day

come a little closer baby i feel like strippin it down
back to the basics of ou and me and what makes the world go round
every inch of you accross my skin
i wanna be stronger than we've ever been
so come a little closer baby
i feel like strippin it down

come a little closer baby
just a little bit closer baby
come a little closer baby
i feel like layin you down