Slow Down

Verse 1

Road signs blurring past the windshield

Ninety-nine on a gravel back road

Got a letter on the dash from mama

Says come home before the river overflows

Phone keeps buzzin in the cup holder

Every ring another promise I ain't kept

Chasing dollar bills and dead-end thrills

Till the daylight starts to slip

Pre-Chorus

And the radio plays a lonesome fiddle cry

Like it knows the shape of my goodbye

Chorus

Slow down boy you're runnin out of years

Slow down before the hurt becomes the wheels

Your daddy's boots are sittin by the door

Slow down and find what you're lookin for

Verse 2

Sunday service on the county line

Same pew where I learned how to pray

Now I'm standin at a crossroads in the midnight

Not sure I know the words to say

Got a girl back home with a patient smile

And a ring sittin in a drawer

Every mile I drive is a mile I lie

About who I really am no more

Pre-Chorus

And the fiddle sings a wire-thin tune

Underneath a half-blind harvest moon

Chorus

Slow down boy you're runnin out of years

Slow down before the hurt becomes the wheels

Your daddy's boots are sittin by the door

Slow down and find what you're lookin for

Bridge

I've been a wild and reckless man

Torn my share of shirts and fences down

But there's a quiet voice that calls me home

When the last bar light goes out

Verse 3

Gonna park this truck at the old gate

Gonna let the gravel settle low

Gonna hold my mama till she laughs

And tell that girl I'm ready now to grow

Pre-Chorus

The fiddle's cryin out a softer note

And the river's risin slow beneath my coat

Chorus

Slow down boy you're runnin out of years

Slow down before the hurt becomes the wheels

Your daddy's boots are sittin by the door

Slow down and find what you're lookin for

Post-Chorus

Slow down now

Slow down now

Mmm slow down

Slow slow down