[Intro - Male] Drive home slow the year is not chasing us [Verse 1 - Male country] Pie tins washed, frost scraped, jacket still on the hook We pull out later than we meant to. I take the long look at a road I have driven fast a thousand working days Drive home slow. Let the last of the season stay in the cab with the summer smell and her knee on mine I do not need the short cut. I need the line of trees going bare and the light going thin and a girl who learned the scraper and still got in without a speech about leaving before the cold got worse Drive home slow is a prayer and a verse I can keep. No radio. Just the heater on low and the sound of a truck that knows where to go when going is not the point. Staying in motion without running. That is the whole notion [Pre-Chorus - Male sung] No shortcut no rush just a county road and this hush [Verse 2 - Female rap] I used to measure a trip by how soon I arrived Drive home slow taught me arrived is already lived in the miles if the person next to you is the place City girl, county dash, same honest face in the side glass. I watch the fields go dull gold then gray. I do not ask him to take the bold fast way back to a highway that would spit us out Drive home slow. That is what this season was about from cider to costumes to a table that made room to a hook that kept my jacket like a quiet bride and groom without the paperwork. Just the choice to take the long way through a year that tried to move us along before we were finished. We are not finished. We are here Drive home slow. Keep the wheel. Keep me near [Pre-Chorus - Female sung] No shortcut no list just a county road and this kiss we do not have to take yet [Chorus - Both] Drive home slow let the last light last We have done the holidays we can do the miles unasked Drive home slow heater low, windows cracked a hair Streetlights not on yet and I still want you there Drive home slow the frost already taught the glass If the year is speeding up we can let it pass Drive home slow not because we are lost because we found it and we know what it cost to get a seat this sure in a truck this true Drive home slow I am driving it with you [Verse 3 - Male country] There is a turn I always take to shave four minutes off I miss it on purpose. She notices. I do not scoff at my own softness. Drive home slow is a grown man choosing the long way because he finally can without calling it waste. The waste would be the race back to an empty hook and a colder place She talks about next year like it is already booked Drive home slow. I have already looked at that year and I want her in the extra chair again and in the frost and in the cab when the year wears thin [Verse 4 - Female rap] I will go back to my city for a week and a job Drive home slow is the sentence I will not rob of its meaning by pretending I do not know the route returns to his door and the jacket I left out on purpose. I can live in two places if one of them is this road at dusk with him not performing speed. Performing stay Drive home slow. That is the only way I want the end of autumn written down Not a slam of a door. A roll through town with the lights not on yet and the heat on low and a man who is not in a hurry to let me go [Chorus - Both, bigger] Drive home slow let the last light last We have done the holidays we can do the miles unasked Drive home slow heater low, windows cracked a hair Streetlights not on yet and I still want you there Drive home slow the frost already taught the glass If the year is speeding up we can let it pass Drive home slow not because we are lost because we found it and we know what it cost to get a seat this sure in a truck this true Drive home slow I am driving it with you [Bridge - Trade then Both] [Male] Miss the short cut [Female] Take the long [Male] Keep the heater [Female] Keep the song [Both] Drive home slow the season's last good trick arriving later is how we make it stick [Verse 5 - Trade] [Male] Tell me you want this road when the calendar turns hard [Female] Tell me you want the passenger when I am off my guard [Male] Drive home slow—say this is how we go from here [Female] This is how. This is us. That is the year [Final Chorus - Both, loudest] Drive home slow let the last light last We have done the holidays we can do the miles unasked Drive home slow heater low, windows cracked a hair Streetlights not on yet and I still want you there Drive home slow the frost already taught the glass If the year is speeding up we can let it pass Drive home slow not because we are lost because we found it and we know what it cost to get a seat this sure in a truck this true Drive home slow I am driving it with you [Outro - Male then Both] [Male] Four minutes longer worth every one [Both] Drive home slow we are not done
