Old Road Home

Every one of my earthly possessions is inside this car

And the fuel gauge on empty usually decided how far

We go today

So I scratch through the ashtray and see what I got there in change

Just enough to go 'round, getting me where I'm going today

I'm on the old road home

Four signs 'til I hit my town

If memories were rivers, I'd drown

But I'd go down smiling

Every burden I carried I left on the track

Life is too short to hold feelings like that

With the sun on my face, it's so good to be back

On the old road home

On the old road home

They built the new highway that bypassed the places I knew

I remember that old service station at Woodburn

I coasted in one night on fumes

Now when I see the old cane fires burn near Maclean

I know it won't be long till I'm turning on Big River Way

Back on the old road home

Three signs 'til I hit my town

If memories were rivers, I'd drown

But I'd go down smiling, yes, I would

Every burden I carried I left on the track

Life is too short to hold feelings like that

With the sun on my face, it's so good to be back

On the old road home

On the old road home

I pull off the highway like I've always done

Still feeling like I'm twenty-five

Leaf-covered memories that ain't seen a tyre in a while

Where the dappled light shines

Back on the old road home

Two signs 'til I hit my town

If rivers were memories, I'd drown

But I'd go down smiling, yes, I would

Every burden I carried I left on the track

Life is too short to hold feelings like that

With the sun on my face, it's so good to be back

On the old road home

I'm on the old road home

I'm on the old road home

One sign 'til I hit my town

If memories were rivers, I'd drown

But I'd go down smiling, yes, I would