Every Crooked Mile Home

Verse

Busted shoe on the gravel road, patch on my only coat

Held together with a rusty pin and a borrowed dollar note

Truck won't start but my feet still can, engine's in my chest

Every mile I'm walking is a mile I ain't confessed

Pre-Chorus

So what's a broken axle to a man who's still got legs?

What's an empty pocket when the whole sky's paid in red?

Ask me where I'm going

Chorus

I'm dancing free tonight

Down every crooked mile home

Barefoot on the moonlight

With nowhere left to roam

The road don't own my rhythm

No chain around this bone

I'm dancing free tonight

Down every crooked mile home

Verse

Neon sign above the diner buzzing like a hive of bees

Waitress pours the coffee black, says "honey, take your ease"

I tip her with a story and a wink she can't refuse

Cause a man who's lost his fortune still can hold onto his blues

Pre-Chorus

So what's a hole in my back pocket to a heart that's beating loud?

What's a stranger's town at midnight to a man who's still allowed

To ask me where I'm going

Chorus

I'm dancing free tonight

Down every crooked mile home

Barefoot on the moonlight

With nowhere left to roam

The road don't own my rhythm

No chain around this bone

I'm dancing free tonight

Down every crooked mile home

Bridge

Used to think that freedom was a house with a locked door

Turns out it's the dust I'm kicking, turns out it's this floor

Every stumble's a downbeat, every ache's a snare

Lord, I never knew how good it feels to have nowhere

Chorus

I'm dancing free tonight

Down every crooked mile home

Barefoot on the moonlight

With nowhere left to roam

The road don't own my rhythm

No chain around this bone

I'm dancing free tonight

Down every crooked mile home

Outro

Every crooked mile

Every crooked mile home