The Breakdown

Well the car broke down in a one-stop town

Just before he was 'bout to turn around

Not a single city limit sign to see where he's at

When you're out that far, your only options are

Getting gone in the town dive bar

And if you knew him you'd know he's good at that

Well he was looking for peace with every new drink that he'd start

But the words that made him leave stuck with him like a scar

She said, "When I'm with you life spins around

I can feel us flyin', so don't look down

Won't you hold my hand real tight so you won't drop me"

She said, "There ain't a better time to decide if you want me"

Well that bartender saw him and those eleven

Empty shot glasses so he went and started guessing what it was that was tearing him apart

Well the man said, "Listen, my story's kinda different

Pay close attention 'cause you might not get it

But let's just say it was trouble from the start"

She told me that she loved me

And I should feel so blessed

But the thought of hurting that girl

Scares me half to death

He said, "When I'm with her life spins around

I can feel us flyin', but I weigh her down

If she's got me she'll never get where she needs to go

She may not see that now, but one day she'll know"

Well the girl back home found that note

Tears started staining all the words he wrote

While he was trying to get that old Ford on the road

She read his words again and again, he broke her heart with truck keys and a pen

But she'll keep this line until she's old

"Well I just talked to God and we feel this is best

Trust me if I didn't love you, I'd have never left"

The truck got fixed, the note got flipped

The breakdown's over but another's setting in

And they said, "Hang a left and 66 will take you west"

But as the years went by her life spun back around

He's on the knee, the last one never found

Soon they'll be diamond ringing wedding bells

But she still has nights where her eyes don't close, breaking down by her porch window

Hoping some way, somehow she can wish him well

But he's all alone and nobody knows where

But if he listens real close, he still hears her in the air