Friday night lights on the old footy ground Dust from the paddocks blowin’ all around You leaned on the fence with a stubby in hand Laughin’ at somethin’ I didn’t understand Scoreboard glow in your faded blue jeans Whole world small on that country-town green Didn’t know then what that night would become Just a local league game and you standin’ there, son We were two boys in a town that talked Dreamin’ of roads we hadn’t walked We were young under Friday night lights Two fast hearts in a small-town life You took the west road, I chased the sun Different directions when the game was done But every mile and every town Just kept turnin’ this heart around No matter how far these old roads roam Your name still feels like home You went south where the cold winds run I headed north where the long roads hum Years rolled by like trucks in the night City lights but they never burned right Heard you’d settled somewhere out west Workin’ long days like the rest But every autumn when the lads would play That old footy ground pulled me back that way And the past came back in oval light Like we never left that Friday night We were young under Friday night lights Two fast hearts in a small-town life You took the west road, I chased the sun Different directions when the game was done But every mile and every town Just kept turnin’ this heart around No matter how far these old roads roam Your name still feels like home I came back when the gum trees burned red Same old ground where we used to stand And there you were by the boundary line Two grown men and a borrowed time You said, “Funny how the years run fast.” I said, “Funny how some things last.” We were young under Friday night lights Two lost hearts in a small-town life Every long road I walked alone Was just the long way back home And every mile and every town Was just the long road back around After all the roads I’ve known Your arms still feel like home Friday night lights in the country breeze Two old boys by the leaning posts Whistle blows and the crowd goes home But tonight we ain’t leaving alone.
