I Come Back to This Town

Intro

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, yeah (uh-huh)

La-la-la, la-la-la

Verse

Sunrise on a rusted mailbox, coffee steaming in my hands

Old dog at my boots, truck rumbling like a band

Front porch swing creaks out the kind of song you know by heart

Map with a crease where the county lines all start

Pre-chorus

We got slow dance dinners and stories told too loud

Small town disappointments and bigger-than-the-clouds

But when the day gets heavy and the radio forgets my name

I find my compass in the dirt and call it mine again (mine again)

Chorus

This is where I come home, where the gravel meets the sky, yeah

This is where the long roads end and the porch light stays on, oh

This is where I fold my hands, let the world keep spinning by, yeah

I come back to this town, I come back to this town

I come back to this town (I come back, I come back)

Verse

There was a paper ring beside the glovebox, dated June and torn

Her handwriting like a shoreline, washing up my worn-out morn

We tried to bend like willow trees, we bent but never broke

Left a voicemail on my heart and a memory on the yoke

Pre-chorus

Summer heat will sweat it out, winter's breath will teach the trees

Every small defeat will teach you how to believe

So I oil the hinges, light the lamp, sweep the front step clean

Keep the welcome wide, keep the welcome wide for what might come in

Chorus

This is where I come home, where the gravel meets the sky, yeah

This is where the long roads end and the porch light stays on, oh

This is where I fold my hands, let the world keep spinning by, yeah

I come back to this town, I come back to this town

I come back to this town (come on)

Bridge

We ain't perfect, we're just honest — crooked smiles and honest hands

We hold fast to what matters, make a stand on shifting sand

So when the night gets quiet and the stars start to arrange

I learn another line of living, I turn the page, I change (oh-oh)

Chorus

This is where I come home, where the gravel meets the sky, yeah

This is where the long roads end and the porch light stays on, oh

This is where I fold my hands, let the world keep spinning by, yeah

I come back to this town, I come back to this town

I come back to this town (I come back)

Chorus

This is where I come home, where the gravel meets the sky, yeah

This is where the long roads end and the porch light stays on, oh

This is where I fold my hands, let the world keep spinning by, yeah

I come back to this town, I come back to this town

I come back to this town