Southern Road

Back my life in the junk of a car

We couldn't quite get it right

I stare straight ahead, and I keep on driving

Running all the red lights

The time rolled by like a runaway train

I was fighting it with all my might

Break it up like an AM radio wave

Trying to travel too far in the night

All my mistakes come along for the ride

Running from the past, it's faster to die

The old southern road is where I go

Get myself back in time

The old southern road is all I know

That keeps me safe sometimes

I go there in the back of my mind

She came around like an old time revival

Out of echoes and mirrors and smoke

I couldn't pull the trigger, I guess I just figured

It would all implode if I got too close

All my mistakes come along for the ride

Running from the past, it's faster to die

The old southern road is where I go

Get myself back in time

The old southern road is all I know

That keeps me safe sometimes

I go there in the back of my mind

Well, I started driving when I left her apartment

As far away as I could go

I should have seen it coming how I started running

When she started like to take it slow

I couldn't tell her this was gonna last

All I know how to do is repeat my past

I couldn't tell her this was gonna last

All I know how to do is drive way too fast

I couldn't tell her this was gonna last

All I know how to do is repeat my past

I couldn't tell her this was gonna last

All I know how to do is drive way too fast

Get myself back in time, the old southern road is all

I know that keeps me sane sometimes

The old southern road is where I go

To get myself back in time

The southern road is all I know

That keeps me safe sometimes

I go there in the back of my mind

The old southern road

(Southern road) out the door and keep on running

I just let her go (let her go)

Sinking in quicksand, grabbing at nothing

I just let it go (let it go)

Hit the road for a new kind of vision, and let it go

I came back like old time religion, and let it go

I go there in the back of my mind