Tailgate Kind of Trouble

Verse

Gravel road, my boots kick dust up

Radio's loud in a rusted-out truck

Sun's going down like it's got somewhere to be

But we ain't leaving, no not easy

Cooler's cold, got peaches in a jar

Somebody's cousin brought a beat-up guitar

Porch lights and lightning bugs start to glow

Twenty miles from anywhere I know

Pre-Chorus

So what do you say

We burn up this evening

Ain't no clock on the wall

Just you, me, and the reason

Chorus

We're tailgate kind of trouble tonight

Dancing barefoot in the headlight light

Gravel dust and a Carolina moon

Kick the doors down, turn the whole sky loose

Free as the wind through an open door

Ain't looking for nothing but a little more

This here's tailgate kind of trouble tonight

Verse

Somebody's grandpa's stereo speakers

Blast a song that we all know the words to

Paper plates and a bonfire crackle

Cousin Wade's betting he can out-two-step you

Fireflies climbing up through the trees

Sweet tea sweating on a tailgate breeze

Every star's out clapping right along

Nothing left to do but sing this song

Pre-Chorus

So what do you say

We burn up this evening

Ain't no clock on the wall

Just you, me, and the reason

Chorus

We're tailgate kind of trouble tonight

Dancing barefoot in the headlight light

Gravel dust and a Carolina moon

Kick the doors down, turn the whole sky loose

Free as the wind through an open door

Ain't looking for nothing but a little more

This here's tailgate kind of trouble tonight

Bridge

Someday we'll be old and gray

Telling stories 'bout a night in May

But right now the truck bed's still warm

And this whole town don't know what hit it, y'all

Let it echo, let it ring

Every stomp and clap, this crazy thing

Chorus

We're tailgate kind of trouble tonight

Dancing barefoot in the headlight light

Gravel dust and a Carolina moon

Kick the doors down, turn the whole sky loose

Free as the wind through an open door

Ain't looking for nothing but a little more

This here's tailgate kind of trouble tonight

Outro

Tailgate trouble, one more round

Kick up your boots, don't sit us down

This here's tailgate kind of trouble tonight