This is lyric #482

Red Dirt Road
by Kellee Bradley, In A Big Way Music
(c) 2003

they're whispering again
they say he's coming home
5 years is a long time
she cried for him each night
he told her not to visit
and he asked her not to write

there's a house on the edge of town
he's standing in the yard
peeling paint and broken fence
he can feel the negligence
funny how the world looks
when you're not young and innocent

Chorus
and she goes
running down that dusty red dirt road
carrying her heart like it's a load
upon her shoulders
and all he has to do is hold her

and she knows
he has taken the long way back home
the road was not less traveled like that poem
because that road
brought him right back to her door
red dirt road

she has loved him half her life
she has waited patiently
but something's missing in his eyes
a spark he had that's died
like the whole world is his prison
and there's no parole in sight

Chorus
and she goes
running down that dusty red dirt road
carrying her heart like it's a load
upon her shoulders
and all he has to do is hold her

and she knows
he has taken the long way back home
the road was not less traveled like that poem
because that road
brought him right back to her door
red dirt road


one dark cloud keeps any sun
from shining on this place
what she wouldn't give
to see the smile back on his face
and she prays (somehow God has made a big mistake)
and that red dirt road
and bring that boy she loved
back home

there she goes.......

Red Dirt Road


[This message has been edited by Marty Helly (edited 06-09-2006).]