Twelve Years of Dust

[Intro]
[Verse]
Gravel roads hum that same old tune
Beneath a fading silver moon
Twelve years of dust on my boots
I never thought I'd find the roots
Back in the town where I was born
Where fields are high with golden corn
[Pre-Chorus]
Stoplight blinks yellow on the square
I see our ghosts still standing there
Nothing changes in a town this small
Except for shadows growing tall
[Chorus]
At the diner down on Main
Through the window and the rain
I saw you pouring coffee hot
In the only town we got
You looked at me and knew
Exactly what I put you through
[Verse]
You reached for a sugar jar
I saw the ghost of who we are
On your wrist, that leather band
The one I carved with my hand
When we were seventeen and wild
Before the world was less than mild
[Pre-Chorus]
Edges frayed and turned to gray
Like the words we couldn't say
You didn't hide it with your sleeve
You gave me reason to believe
[Chorus]
At the diner down on Main
Through the window and the rain
I saw you pouring coffee hot
In the only town we got
You looked at me and knew
Exactly what I put you through
[Bridge]
No angry words or bitter ways
Just the ghosts of better days
The life I chose and one I left
A heart that's feeling every theft
Of a moment we used to share
In the heavy summer air
[Verse]
I paid the bill and left a tip
A silent prayer on my lip
You gave a smile, soft and kind
The kind of peace I came to find
I put the truck in gear to go
Driving where the rivers flow
[Chorus]
At the diner down on Main
Through the window and the rain
I saw you pouring coffee hot
In the only town we got
You looked at me and knew
Exactly what I put you through
[Post-Chorus]
Twelve years past
Moving fast
The leather stays
In the haze
[Outro]