A Harlot Washed (Today's Country Pop Crossover)

Verse 1

There's a question hanging over me

Like a lantern on a leaning post

How a soul can wander far from home

And still be counted as a welcomed ghost

My grandmother prayed by a coal stove fire

For a boy who never wrote her back

She said grace is a stubborn kind of weather

That finds you on the longest track

Pre-Chorus

And I don't understand it

No I surely never will

How the worst of what I've carried

Kept a candle burning still

Chorus

It's a mystery that grows forever dim

Your life your lover's and the road you've been

A harlot washed and baptized in the sin

Of every town you ever stumbled in

And somehow love keeps calling you a friend

Yeah love keeps calling you a friend

Verse 2

My brother drove a truck through Tennessee

Left a wife and a daughter in the rain

He came home smelling like a stranger's bar

With a tattoo of a mercy he can't explain

The preacher shook his head and closed the book

But the choir kept on humming soft and low

There's a mercy that outruns the running man

There's a river that refuses not to flow

Pre-Chorus

And I don't understand it

Lord I've tried so many years

How the hands that made the mountains

Hold the ones who made the tears

Chorus

It's a mystery that grows forever dim

Your life your lover's and the road you've been

A harlot washed and baptized in the sin

Of every town you ever stumbled in

And somehow love keeps calling you a friend

Yeah love keeps calling you a friend

Bridge

Maybe the dark is just a doorway

Maybe the fall is just a start

Maybe the ache is where the light gets in

To a busted up and beating heart

Guitar Solo

Chorus

It's a mystery that grows forever dim

Your life your lover's and the road you've been

A harlot washed and baptized in the sin

Of every town you ever stumbled in

And somehow love keeps calling you a friend

Yeah love keeps calling you a friend

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh calling you a friend

Oh-oh calling you a friend