Leaving What I Couldn't Change

Verse 1

Front porch dark and the long road empty

Momma's chair still rockin' in the wind

There's a box of letters in the top of my closet

Names I haven't spoken but I still know them

Pre-Chorus

Years go by and towns get smaller

When you're looking back from somewhere new

Chorus

This is the sound of leaving

Gravel underneath my tires

That old house getting smaller in the rearview

While the last light leaves the sky

I'm taking what I can carry

Leaving what I couldn't change

Some goodbyes never get spoken

You just drive until they're far away

Verse 2

Little League swingset covered up in rust

Daddy's toolbox underneath the stairs

Your name is still scratched into the workbench

Like we thought you'd always be there

We were kids with dirt beneath our fingernails

Making plans beside the county line

Never knew the road could split so quietly

Or how fast a year could turn into a lifetime

Pre-Chorus

Years go by and towns get smaller

When the people you knew are passing through

Chorus

This is the sound of leaving

Gravel underneath my tires

That old house getting smaller in the rearview

While the last light leaves the sky

I'm taking what I can carry

Leaving what I couldn't change

Some goodbyes never get spoken

You just drive until they're far away

Bridge

I don't miss the hurt we carried

I miss who we were before

When a summer lasted forever

And we never watched the clock

You were standing by the mailbox

I was halfway down the road

Neither one of us could see it

But we were already letting go

Final Chorus

This is the sound of leaving

Gravel underneath my tires

That old house disappearing in the rearview

As the morning starts to rise

I'm taking what I can carry

And I'm done with turning back

Some places stay inside you

Long after you leave them in the past

Outro

Front porch dark

Long road empty

The mailbox fading in the mirror

And I keep driving