Wayne Orr

Writer 🕹️ Poet 🕹️ Lyricist


Gravel Road

Verse 1

There’s a gravel road behind this town

Where the pines lean low and the sun goes down

I drive that old truck past the county line

Tryin’ to outrun what’s on my mind

Your name still hangs like smoke in the air

In every backroad prayer I swear

And these hands keep holdin’ onto ghosts

When the night gets quiet the hurt comes close

Chorus

And when the shadows come to call

And I am small and I fall

My body sings a different song

Of how to make me right or wrong

Like a whiskey burn, like a worn-out hymn

Like the ache beneath my skin

I keep searchin’ for where I belong

While my body sings that different song

Verse 2

Mama said son don’t fight the rain

Some storms wash clean, some leave stains

Daddy said hearts are made to bruise

That’s the price of love and truth

So I sit alone by the railroad tracks

Countin’ all the things I can’t take back

With the moonlight layin’ on this town

Like heaven tryin’ to calm me down

Chorus

And when the shadows come to call

And I am small and I fall

My body sings a different song

Of how to make me right or wrong

Like an old steel string cryin’ blue

Like a memory I can’t lose

I keep holdin’ on too long

While my body sings that different song

Bridge

Maybe broken ain’t the same as gone

Maybe lonely makes a man grow strong

Maybe every scar’s just proof

That we survived the hard truth

Final Chorus

And when the shadows come to call

And I am small and I fall

My body sings a different song

Of how to make me right or wrong

So I’ll let the midnight river run

Till forgiveness finds what I’ve become

And somewhere past the hurt I’ve known

That different song will lead me home.

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