Road Ain’t No Place
A man working as a truck driver realizes being home with his wife matters more than life on the road.
[Verse 1]
Been on the road chasing white lines
Passing by oaks, maples, and pines
Air thick with grasses overgrown
Thoughts of holding my wife pulling me home
Gotta keep this engine humming
Half a year gone
Running these horses under this Chevy hood
’Til I pull up to my neighborhood
[Chorus]
The road ain’t no place when you have a wife
It’s the loneliest time in a man’s life
A man belongs in his own home
The road keeps you yearning when you’re all alone
[Verse 2]
Red lights, green lights, stopping and going
The miles behind me quickly growing Chorus
The road ain’t no place when you have a wife
It’s the loneliest time in a man’s life
A man belongs in his own home
The road keeps you yearning when you’re all alone
[Chorus]
The road ain’t no place when you have a wife
It’s the loneliest time in a man’s life
A man belongs in his own home
The road keeps you yearning when you’re all alone
[Verse 3]
Stopping at diners morning, noon, and night
Overcooked food and coffee, white-line fever I fight
Nothing tastes as good as the burgers you make
Another night without you is more than I can take
Don’t ever want to leave your side
Even for a short thirty-minute ride
[Final Chorus]
The road was no place without my wife
Home at last — this is my life
Don’t need another night alone
I’m back with my wife in my own home
Dust In My Tip Jar
A woman dreaming of becoming a Nashville star keeps chasing the spotlight despite empty bars and empty tip jars.
[Verse 1]
Gonna leave this one-light town tonight
On a late-night train or a midnight flight
I'll take this guitar into a neon bar
And play my songs under a Texas star
[Chorus]
I wanna be a country star Came to Nashville chasing who we are
Gonna leave my mark Singing late into the dark
With nothing but hope in my tip jar
[Verse 2]
Came to Nashville counting stars
Taking jobs in dive bars
Playing my guitar in an empty bar
Nothing but dust in my tip jar
Still believing with this old six-string
Every no just fuels the dream
[Chorus]
I wanna be a country star
Came to Nashville chasing who we are
Gonna leave my mark
Singing late into the dark
With nothing but hope in my tip jar
[Verse 3]
Working dead-end jobs in dive bar
Hoping my star shoots up that far
Close to giving up
Still believing I'll be a star
[Chorus]
I wanna be a country star
Came to Nashville chasing who we are
Gonna leave my mark
Singing late into the dark
With nothing but hope in my tip jar
[Final Chorus]
Yeah, I made it — I'm a country star Left that one-light town so far
Yeah, I finally left my mark
From singing late into the dark From dust in my tip jar
That's What A Broken Heart Does
A woman works through her pain and heals after a broken heart.
[Verse 1]
Haven’t smiled in days
Haven’t laughed in week
It’s been months since I felt real love
That’s what a broken heart does
Tears falling to the floor
Stomach aching from the pain
Can’t do this anymore
Not sleeping, not eating
Sinking into the couch watching TV
[Chorus]
Haven’t smiled in days
Haven’t laughed in weeks
It’s been months since I felt real love
That’s what a broken heart does
[Verse 2]
My heart is breaking from what it’s been through
Screaming and crying and fighting with you
Don’t want to talk on the phone
Feeling all alone Just fading away day by day
That’s what a broken heart does
[Chorus]
Haven’t smiled in days
Haven’t laughed in weeks
It’s been months since I felt real love
That’s what a broken heart does
[Bridge]
Now my heart’s been cracked and split into two
Closed off to love — that’s what broken hearts do
[Final Chorus / Turn]
That may be what a broken heart does
But I’m gonna lift myself up, smile and laugh
Not worry about love
That’s what a healing heart does
That’s what a healing heart does
Done Living Like A Tumbleweed
A man tired of drifting decides he wants to plant roots and build a life.
[Verse 1]
Leaving this town for a better life
To find my true love and make her my wife
Create a life for me and her
Build a small cabin on half an acre
Give her everything she'll ever need
Done living my life like a tumbleweed
[Chorus]
Done rolling and blowing in the wind
Can't do it over and over again
Being lonely makes my heart bleed
Done living like a tumbleweed
Don't want to live like a tumbleweed
[Verse 2]
Gonna plant some roots to finally call home
Dig my feet firmly into the ground
Tired of living like a tumbleweed
Blowing in the wind gathering speed I'm praying to the man upstairs
To bring love to the coming years
Raise a happy little family
That's the life that I want for me
Today, tomorrow, a year or two from now
[Chorus]
Done rolling and blowing in the wind
Can't do it over and over again
Being lonely makes my heart bleed
Done living like a tumbleweed
Don't want to live like a tumbleweed
[Verse 3]
A man can only take
So much of this kind of life Solitary on his own
Without a wife Want to grow
Want to feel whole
Praying to the man above
To send me my one true love
[Final Chorus / Outro]
Done rolling and blowing in the wind
Can't do it over and over again
Being lonely makes my heart bleed
Done living like a tumbleweed
Don't want to live like a tumbleweed
No… not living like a tumbleweed
No… not living like a tumbleweed
Done living my life like a tumbleweed