Drive all night and you're almost home
You sing along a song on the radio
Your dashboard lights and your engine moans
The last time you left was long ago
And when you ride
the half folks and empty eyes
and everyone starts asking where you've been
Just then you realize that while you were out chasing pines
everybody else got settled in
You are older, you are now, once a young gun
Now the door is locked
so the lights all leave your face numb
You saw the world spin, while your home spun
You saw the world spin, while your home spun
And off you go and on you ride
You never felt so lost and left behind
Your headlights glow on your heavy mind
shining on the road and now you're blind
You can hope the stretch ahead is silverlined
And when you return
back to town
the place you yearn is the only one who knows where you've been
It'll be no surprise
while everyone has lived their lives
the memories you left them were thin.
You are older, you are now, once a young gun
Now the door is locked so the lights all leave your face numb
You saw the world spin, while your home spun
You saw the world spin, while your home spun
Now when you leave here
you look twice at your loved ones
make sure to soak it in
Now when you leave here
you look twice at your loved ones
You don't know how they'll grow
they just know you're leaving
You are older, you are now, once a young gun
Now the door is locked so the lights all leave your face numb
You saw the world spin, while your home spun
You saw the world spin, while your home spun