Crossing State Lines

[Verse 1]

You left your boots by the back door

Said you’d “be right back” last June

Now they just stare at the hallway

Like they’re waiting on you

Coffee’s gone cold in the kitchen

Radio hums the same tune

I’m talking out loud to the quiet

Like it’s something we do

[Chorus]

I keep on crossing state lines

But I can’t cross over you

Mile after mile

Same blue sky

Just a different view

I thought the road might heal this

Thought distance could cut it loose

I keep on crossing state lines

But I can’t cross over you

I say “I’m alright

” then I lie

Tell her I love all this traveling

Truth is I’m scared to stop driving

Your sweater rides shotgun beside me

Threadbare and fraying with time

Every new town

Same old story

You’re still riding my mind

[Chorus]

I keep on crossing state lines

But I can’t cross over you

Mile after mile

Same blue sky

Just a different view

I thought the road might heal this

Thought distance could cut it loose

I keep on crossing state lines

But I can’t cross over you

[Bridge]

Maybe love don’t have an exit

Maybe grief don’t have a name

I trace your face in the window

Till the window blurs with rain (oh)

If letting go is a country

I ain’t found it yet

All these roads on the map

And I’m still where you left

[Chorus]

I keep on crossing state lines

But I can’t cross over you

Mile after mile

Same blue sky

Just a different view

I thought the road might heal this

Thought distance could cut it loose

I keep on crossing state lines

Yeah

I keep crossing state lines

But I can’t cross over you (oh no)