I remember the night my dad stopped the car,
And got out in the rain,
Changed a blown out tire on a car,
For a family with out of state plates,
I said dad did we know those folks
As they waved and drove out of sight,
He just smiled as he started the car
He said son not 'til tonight,
You see the road you leave behind you
Is another road you're gonna have to come back down,
It's just the way this big old world turns 'round,
You'll find, somehow, somewhere, someplace,sometime,
You gotta go back down the road you leave behind.
Stuck out on the highway one night,
Many years gone by,
Had the hood of my truck pulled up
My 'ol gas tank was dry,
Some 'ol guy gettin' off on the night shift
Pulled up to check on me,
He said I been in your shoes before son
And it's no place to be,
You see the road you leave behind you
Is another road you're gonna have to come back down,
It's just the way this big old world turns 'round,
You'll find, somehow, somewhere, someplace, sometime,
You gotta go back down the road you leave behind.
I said what do I owe you friend you could easily
passed me by,
He said next time it might be me son, you don't owe
me a dime,
You see the road you leave behind you
Is another road you're gonna have to come back down,
It's just the way this big old world turns ,round
You'll find, somehow, somewhere, someplace, sometime,
You gotta go back down the road you leave behind.
Down The road you leave behind.....
The road you leave behind.....
That 'ol road you leave behind.....
