VERSE 1 Started at the north gate Monday morning Post hole digger and a coffee in a jar Forty miles of cedar and barbed wire Knowing that the hardest work's by far CHORUS Forty miles of fence All the ways we kept our distance Forty miles of fence Built on pride and old resistance Love don't care about the lines we draw It finds the gate every time You can't fence out what's already in you And you can't fence in what's already mine VERSE 2 I strung the wire between us like a fencerow Drove the posts in deep and called it strength Thought I was protecting something precious Found out I was just afraid of what lay past the length CHORUS Forty miles of fence All the ways we kept our distance Forty miles of fence Built on pride and old resistance Love don't care about the lines we draw It finds the gate every time You can't fence out what's already in you And you can't fence in what's already mine BRIDGE Met you in the middle of that old fence line Pulled a wire loose and let the meadow breathe Found out the field looks better without all of it And darlin' the same is true for you and me OUTRO The gate was open all along...
