Call Me Home

Verse 1

There's a hollow in the holler where the dogs won't go

My brother disappeared there seven winters ago

The preacher says the devil keeps a house in the pines

I say the devil's just a name we give to blood and time

Pre-Chorus

So I load the truck and I don't look back

Every mile marker feels like a trap

Chorus

Call me home

Call me out

Call me anything you want but don't call me now

Call me saint

Call me thief

Call me back when the county line lets me breathe

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh) let me breathe

(Oh-oh) let me breathe

Verse 2

My mother kept a Bible with a page torn out

The night my father swore he'd never see another drought

I learned to pray the way a hound learns to howl

Half devotion and half something feral in the vowels

Pre-Chorus

So I drive till the asphalt turns to clay

And the radio just hisses what I cannot say

Chorus

Call me home

Call me out

Call me anything you want but don't call me now

Call me saint

Call me thief

Call me back when the county line lets me breathe

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh) let me breathe

(Oh-oh) let me breathe

Bridge

There's a river that remembers every stone I threw

There's a woman in the mirror who already knew

That the kindest thing a sinner ever does

Is leave before the leaving turns to rust

Chorus

Call me home

Call me out

Call me anything you want but don't call me now

Call me saint

Call me thief

Call me back when the county line lets me breathe

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh) let me breathe

(Oh-oh) let me breathe