Backroads Take Me Home

[Verse 1]
Dust on my boots
Coffee in a stained old cup
Maple tree leaning
Over where the gravel starts to cut
Mailbox leaning sideways
Name fading off that paint
Every mile I’m losing
One more layer of the day

[Chorus]
These dirt roads take me home
Past the fields and the rust and the kudzu grown
Every bump
Every rut
Knows the weight of what I’ve done
I ain’t rich
I ain’t young
But I’m rolling where my raising’s from
On these dirt roads
These backroads take me home (oh yeah)

[Verse 2]
Mama’s porch light
Still flickers like it always did
Dad’s old Chevy
Parked crooked by the cattle shed
Sunday on the radio
Preacher barely coming through
I mouth the words I remember
Like a prayer I once outgrew

[Chorus]
These dirt roads take me home
Past the fields and the rust and the kudzu grown
Every bump
Every rut
Knows the weight of what I’ve done
I ain’t rich
I ain’t young
But I’m rolling where my raising’s from
On these dirt roads
These backroads take me home

[Bridge]
Left my heart in a high school letter jacket
Left my plans in a broke-down band van
Thought the highway was my ticket to forever
But forever looks a lot like this red clay land (oh)

[Chorus]
These dirt roads take me home
Past the fields and the rust and the kudzu grown
Every bump
Every rut
Knows the weight of what I’ve done
I ain’t rich
I ain’t young
But I’m rolling where my raising’s from
On these dirt roads
Yeah
These backroads
They still take me home