Zach Bryan – This Road I Know (Guitar)

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                     This a poem I wrote called "This Road I Know"

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 There's this flash I get often, a fever dream or a vision of sorts

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Most times late at night and I haven't found out why, but I know exactly why

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I'm on this road, and I hear gravel underneath me, and I feel it too

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And I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am

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 It's dark, it's really dark and the car is warm, but somehow I can feel how cold the night is

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I don't know where the road leads, but I know exactly where it ends

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You see, I keep driving, and all I see for the longest while is my headlights for an eternity, it seems

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 And everything is desolate and empty and nothing and hopeless

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I'm lost, but I know where I'm going, I'm safe, I'm warm, I'm driving and I see this small light

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A dim one, growing brighter and bigger and closer and stronger and the closer I get, the more I see

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I make out a house with light strewn across it, a porch, some cars

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Some frosted windshields that hadn't been touched for hours

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 I hear a song, and it's faint, I can't make out the name, but I know every word

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I feel my feet first, and it's cold and they're crunching, and it's the sound of driveways

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And the wind takes my breath with it

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And then I walk up to this door and I knock, even though I feel I don't have to

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 And I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am

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 And this crack of light widens on this porch underneath me as this door opens

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And this brown-haired girl with the brightest smile

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I don't know who she is, but I know her so well and behind her, the warmest home I'd ever seen

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It's orange and comfortable, there's fire and it's bulb-lit

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She says

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"Where have you been? We've been waiting on you all night, we've missed you"

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She says through the kindest smirk I'd seen in so long

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Then she tapers off the sentence with the, with the peaceful sound that a lady makes

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She grabs me on my forearms, pulls softly into the dining room

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 There's people and they're happy and they're content for one

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 I don't know who they are, but I know exactly who they are

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And we're all standing and I'm laughing at a joke I'll never hear again

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I don't know where I am but I know exactly where I am

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And then she tucks her head between my collar as a friend

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Between my collar and my jaw, and there's no weight at all

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 And I don't know where I am, but there's no weight at all

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It's laughter and grins and no tomorrow to win

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And I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am

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 I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am