[Verse 1] She don’t need no GPS Don’t need no blue line on her phone Takes a left by the water tower Cuts behind the Texaco Knows which roads don’t catch blue lights Knows which bridges shake too bad Knows the diner off the county line Where the coffee still tastes like ash She laughs when I take Main Street Says, “Boy, you like doin’ things hard” Then she leans across that bench seat And finds the soft spot in my heart [Pre-Chorus] I built fences out of white lies Hung a no trespass sign But she don’t ever read ’em She just drives right by [Chorus] She knows the back way Past the barbed wire Past the old me Past the hellfire Don’t need a map, babe Don’t need a prayer She knows the back way And she’s already there Straight through the pine trees Straight through my pride Right past the places I learned how to hide She knows the back way To get to me She knows the back way Better than I know me [Verse 2] She knows my truck by the sound it makes Knows I’m mad by the way I brake Knows when I say, “I’m good, I swear” That I ain’t even close to okay She knows the songs I skip too fast Knows which name I don’t bring up Knows I act like I’m bulletproof Till one little look calls my bluff She’ll take a dirt road after midnight Just to show me another sky Says, “You can keep your tough act, baby I know where the real you hides” [Pre-Chorus] I built walls out of old smoke Kept the gate locked tight But she don’t ask for keys She just walks inside [Chorus] She knows the back way Past the barbed wire Past the old me Past the hellfire Don’t need a map, babe Don’t need a prayer She knows the back way And she’s already there Straight through the pine trees Straight through my pride Right past the places I learned how to hide She knows the back way To get to me She knows the back way Better than I know me [Bridge] If I get lost, she don’t panic If I go quiet, she don’t chase She just turns down some road I forgot about And meets me in that place Where I ain’t gotta be nobody Where I ain’t gotta say I’m fine She knows every way around this town And every way around my mind [Final Chorus] She knows the back way Past the barbed wire Past the old me Past the hellfire Don’t need a map, babe Don’t need a prayer She knows the back way And she’s already there Straight through the pine trees Straight through my pride Right past the places I learned how to hide She knows the back way To get to me She knows the back way Better than I know me
