Lyrics: Gideon Thorne
Music: Gideon Thorne
Producer：Gideon Thorne
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Paint on the hardware sign
Flaked off
Years at a time
Same three trucks at the four‑way stop
Folks trading weather and talk
Your name is still carved in that oak
By the river bend where we smoked
Thought we would bust out of this town
Funny how the road turned around
Backroads at sundown
Dust in the rearview
Hanging low
Half of me stayed here
Half of me learned to let it go
I am not the man I swore I would be
But I am still standing on my own two feet
Backroads at sundown
Bringing who I was back home to me
Ma is house leans a little more
Same loose hinge on the screen door
She says my eyes look just like his
I change the subject
Wash the dishes
Kids on bikes where we crashed mine
Chasing the tail of summertime
I raise a hand
They do not know my face
I am just a stranger in a familiar place
Backroads at sundown
Dust in the rearview
Hanging low
Half of me stayed here
Half of me learned to let it go
I am not the man I swore I would be
But I am still standing on my own two feet
Backroads at sundown
Bringing who I was back home to me
I used to think leaving was winning
Now I see it is all just spinning
Every mile I put between me and this town
Just circled me back around
Backroads at sundown
Dust in the rearview
Hanging low
Half of me stayed here
Half of me learned to let it go
I am not the man I swore I would be
But I am still here
And that is enough for me
Backroads at sundown
Bringing who I am back home to me