Backroad To Amarillo

[Verse 1]

Met her at a Sunday diner

Coffee cup

Chipped blue rim

She was drawing in the margins

Of a napkin tucked to the brim

Said

"I'm headed toward Amarillo

If this old truck still knows the way"

She laughed

"I ain't got much to carry

Just a suitcase and yesterday"

[Chorus]

Backroad to Amarillo

Dust in the rearview

Sky on fire

Two strangers trading old worn stories

Gas tank low and a heart pulled higher

Every mile a little less lonely

Every fence post

Letting go

Found a future in the middle

Of a backroad to Amarillo

[Verse 2]

She talked about a ring she buried

Like milk left out too soon

I told her 'bout a ranch gone quiet

Since my brother caught that train

How the house stayed standing

Somehow

But the halls still said his name

[Chorus]

Backroad to Amarillo

Dust in the rearview

Sky on fire

Two strangers trading old worn stories

Gas tank low and a heart pulled higher

Every mile a little less lonely

Every fence post

Letting go

Found a future in the middle

Of a backroad to Amarillo

[Bridge]

Radio faded into crackle

But the silence felt just right (mm, yeah)

She took my hand at a four-way stop

Under one blinking yellow light

Said

"I don't know what I'm chasing

But it sure ain't what I had"

I said

"Sometimes the road you're taking

Is the only home you have"

[Chorus]

Backroad to Amarillo

Dust in the rearview

Sky on fire

Two strangers trading old worn stories

Gas tank low and a heart pulled higher

Every mile a little less lonely

Every fence post

Letting go

We wrote our names in the middle

Of a backroad to Amarillo

[Outro]

Now there's kids in that old backseat

Crayons on the dashboard glow

Still get lost just to remember

That backroad to Amarillo