Sun's dropping red behind the water tower Got the windows down, fifty miles an hour There's a cooler rolling round in the backseat Still got sand on the floorboard from last week We burned a Friday down at Miller's Cove Played bad guitar songs till the fire got low Now every backroad knows where I've been And every one of 'em makes me want to turn again I should turn left at the county line But I ain't ready for the night to say goodbye So I'm taking the long way home Past Miller's Cove on that old dirt road Past the place where she stole my hat And laughed when I tried to get it back So I'm taking the long way home Ain't ready for this feeling to fade If she calls it'll make my day I'll turn this truck around and head her way Met her on Tuesday in a roadside bar Leaning on a jukebox listenin' to a steel guitar She said, You look like you're from around here I said, days endin' in why I can be found right here She laughed like she already knew me Wrote her number on a napkin, folded it loosely I've checked that thing seventeen times Like somehow her number might change overnight So I'm taking the long way home Past Miller's Cove on that old dirt road Past the place where she stole my hat And laughed when I tried to get it back So I'm taking the long way home Ain't ready for this feeling to fade If she calls it'll make my day I'll turn this truck around and head her way Maybe it's nothing Maybe it's just July Maybe it's the way the evening Makes a man believe he's got more time But what if this is one of those nights You don't get back again? What if I go home tonight? And this is where the story ends? So I'm taking the long way home Past Miller's Cove on that old dirt road Past the place where she stole my hat Like she knew I'd come looking back Yeah, summer's got a few weeks left And I ain't ready to let it end just yet So I'm taking the long way home Hopin' I see her again down the road She's the reason I'm takin' the long way home She's the reason I'm takin' ...the long way home
