The Man I Used To Be

Verse 1

The screen door banged at four a.m.

Her note was folded on the sill

Said sorry honey I had to run

Said sorry but I know you will

The tractor sits out in the field

The dog won't eat and won't come in

I've been talking to the walls again

And the walls won't let me win

Pre-Chorus

So I load the truck with what I own

Every scar and every stone

Chorus

I'm not the man I used to be

I'm not the ghost she left behind

I'm gonna drive this gravel road

Until the highway clears my mind

And if the dawn comes up on nothing

Well I've started there before

I'm not the man I used to be

But I'm walking out that door

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh walk on

Oh-oh walk on

Verse 2

My father worked the same red dirt

For forty years and never complained

He'd say a man can lose his whole world

And still stand up in the rain

I never understood him then

I do now I surely do

He buried mama in the spring

And kept on living too

Pre-Chorus

So I'm learning how to carry grief

Like a pocket full of seeds

Chorus

I'm not the man I used to be

I'm not the ghost she left behind

I'm gonna drive this gravel road

Until the highway clears my mind

And if the dawn comes up on nothing

Well I've started there before

I'm not the man I used to be

But I'm walking out that door

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh walk on

Oh-oh walk on

Bridge

I don't need a map to heaven

I don't need a reason why

I just need one honest morning

And a little bit of sky

Chorus

I'm not the man I used to be

I'm not the ghost she left behind

I'm gonna drive this gravel road

Until the highway clears my mind

And if the dawn comes up on nothing

Well I've started there before

I'm not the man I used to be

But I'm walking out that door

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh walk on

Oh-oh walk on