Blood on the Gravel

I left my shadow in the driveway

And my name in the cracked back seat

Porchlight burned like a warning

While the night kept chewing on me

Whiskey on my tongue, dust on my jacket

Prayer in the noise, but it don't stay

Every mile I put behind me

Feels like it was born the same way

I got blood on the gravel, trouble out my chest

A heart full of thunder, it won't get me rest

Rough as a road, twice as wild

Torn up, worn down, still running wild

If love is a mercy

I never knew how

I'm full of pain

And I sounded out loud

The preacher said, boy, you can change this

But change gon' come to a man like me

I've been baptized in engine smoke

Baptized again in misery

There's a woman somewhere with my sorry on a pillow

And a ring of truth I never could keep

Now the highway hums like a confession

And the dark keeps time with my beat up feet

I got blood on the gravel and trouble in my chest

A heart full of thunder that won't give me rest

I'm rough as a road and twice as wild

Caught up, worn down, still running a while

If love is a mercy, I never knew how

I'm full of pain

And I sound it out loud

Oh, let that organ moan

Let that sly guitar cry

If there's a river for the broken

Let it roll on by

I've been low, I've been lonely

I've been laid out in the rain

But I still got a soul left burning and it sings through every pain

I got blood on the gravel and trouble in my chest

A heart full of thunders that won't give me rest

I'm rough as a road and twice as wild

Torn up, worn down, still running a while

If love is a mercy

I never knew how

I'm full of pain

And I'll sound it out loud

Yeah, I'm full of pain

And I sounded out loud