We rode the years like freight that never slowed, just towns we never knew You traced the maps on folded seats while I kept watch on fading views Those miles were more than iron rails, they held the words we couldn’t speak And every turn revealed a truth we’d saved for some forgotten week (“mmm — mmm”) Maybe love’s just lines down the track when the nights lean long But we still hold on to the rhythm of an old, unfinished song So lay those miles behind us now, let the morning call us through If the road remembers everything, then it remembers me and you And if time can mend a promise, then let the daylight keep it true ’Cause every line down the track still leads me back to you (“back to you…”) We touched the edge of drifting years and tried to name the cost Held the pieces close like treasure from the things we thought we’d lost But even quiet hearts will shake when the rails begin to bend And we learned the hardest journeys are the ones we never end (“never end…”) Every town we passed still holds a story that we wrote And in between the spoken lines, I hear the thing you meant the most So lay those miles behind us now, let the sunlight tell us why If the past can teach us anything, it’s how to kiss a wandering sky And if love still knows the distance, it can bridge a closing view ’Cause every line down the track still leads me back to you (“back to you… back to you…”) [There’s a heartbeat in the rail that hums whenever we return A reminder of the quiet things we swear we’re gonna learn And though the wind keeps changing tune, the road remembers every sound It carries love like weather worn but never broken down (“never broken down”) [Solo] So lay those miles behind us now, let the morning guide us through If the rail can keep a rhythm, then it keeps a place for two And the days we lost return again in colors born anew ’Cause every line down the track still leads me back to you (“leads me back… leads me back…”)
