Old Country Road
Just as faithful as Sunday morning
But he wouldn't appear to be
Only a year out of high school
So young and so free
Had baby already
And his lady's naive
Trying to build a family
On a hill of instability
The conversation got heated
The words started to cut
Tears started flowing
He started his truck
Put the house in his rearview
The sun in his windshield
Rushing towards freedom
Driving over the hill
Couldn't see a future
Couldn't fight the hurt
Blinded by emotion
Couldn't handle the curve
Woke up Monday morning
To a bigger burden
From picture of the accident
And the children hurting
The parents were lying
Relatives were crying
A pickup was crashing
And he was driving
On a country road
A lonely highway
Down in a valley
Looking for redemption
Speeding towards freedom
With the pedal to the metal
But where the rubber met the road
He lost control
So many lives were shattered
When the airbags deployed
And a hysterical mother
Cries for her baby boy
Rolled away on a gurney
Escorted by cops
His mind goes on a journey
As he lies there in shock
Wish he could turn back the moments
On that old country road
When he forced all his problems
On a family he didn’t know
He paid his debt and liability
And started going to church
He kiss his baby every night
And hides his keys when he’s hurt
A couple years later
Down that old country road
He was back where he started
Be he was driving real slow
As fate might have had it
He pulls to a gas station
Ran again into the family
The kids smiling and waving
They realized that they were neighbors
Just a couple driveways away
Down that old country road
That lonely highway
On a country road
A lonely highway
Down in a valley
Looking for redemption
Speeding towards freedom
With the pedal to the metal
But where the rubber met the road
He lost control
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