The Road

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Busted dreams and a left hand out of Texas.
That's all I’ve got for company on this road going home.
The next decision I make, it may just be the most important.
‘Cause the vices make the man when he's alone.

How much longer could I make it on a soon emptied bottle?
Or a few more soft packs of my favorite smokes?
A Greyhound ticket might just mean I wouldn't have to walk much farther.
But what’s the point in that with nowhere left to go.

The road goes on forever and the party never ends, until it does.
Until it does.
And you’re left holding on to the one thing that you'd hoped would be the difference.
'Cause the memory's so much sweeter than the truth ever was.
It ever was.

A burnout father ain’t got no place in my hometown.
Or anyone else's hometown I suppose.
So I took what little was left of a ruined reputation.
And set out for better courses on the road.
Now I know she can’t forgive me or even see the difference.
Between running away and trying to give her it all.
Like my father and his before him, I’ll run until I make it.
And count the chips alone wherever they fall.

The road goes on forever and the party never ends, until it does.
Until it does.
And you’re left holding on to the one thing that you'd hoped would be the difference.
'Cause the memory's so much sweeter than the truth ever was.
It ever was.

I can’t walk for falling.
I can’t seem to get this thing off the ground.
The one thing I’m holding on to.
Won’t ever be enough to turn it all around.
But excuses enable the coward.
I'll be damned if I let the man I was.
Control my future only because.
I let it be the one thing that holds me down.

Because the road goes on forever and the party never ends, until it does.
Until it does.
And you’re left holding on to the one thing that you'd hoped would be the difference.
'Cause the memory's so much sweeter than the truth ever was.
It ever was.

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from Ditches, released December 4, 2020
Trey Lyons (Vocals, Guitar)

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