Mile Marker Forty-One

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Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Verse 1

Hands on the wheel and the radio low

Mile marker forty-one

I drove past your town without slowing down

Same way I always done

Pre-Chorus

But tonight the exit sign

Lit up like a question I can't leave behind

Chorus

So I pull over and I sit

In the dark where the gravel meets the fence

Same bench where we carved our names

Except the rain spent twenty years erasing them

I let the highway go

I let the engine hum

I count the reasons I was right to run

Verse 2

Your mother kept the garden

I remember the fence was always crooked

She'd wave from the kitchen window

And I'd wave back and never look

Pre-Chorus

Now somebody else's porch light's on

And the house I left is somebody else's home

Chorus

So I pull over and I sit

In the dark where the gravel meets the fence

Same bench where we carved our names

Except the rain spent twenty years erasing them

I let the highway go

I let the engine hum

I count the reasons I was right to run

Bridge

If I could tell that younger man

Who slammed the door and burned the map

That running only taught him how

To carry every road he ever left

Instrumental Journey

Final Chorus

So I pull over and I sit

In the dark where the gravel meets the fence

Same bench where we carved our names

The rain let twenty years of them go

I let the highway go

I let the engine hum

I'm counting the reasons I should stay a while

Outro

Maybe I stay

Mm

Maybe I stay

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