A Cross on a Gravel Road (Single) Lyrics

I said, "Elizabeth, I know

You can't wait to get out of here

But I bet you'll look back when you're leaving"

We were the lone lights on the road

Drifting over county lines

A bottle at our feet

She said, "I know this place too well

To lose myself

And I just wanna lose myself again"

And "We could die tonight

There's thousands yet ahead and I...

I can't spend 'em here"

And I said,

"If you end up wrecking all alone

So far from your name you can't be found

And stranded like a cross on a gravel road

Who'd be the one to bring you flowers?

Who'd be the one to bring you flowers?"

I said, "Elizabeth, there is a grace

In dying in the very place

You were born"

In the dashboard glow

I swore I saw her eyes roll

Or stow away a tear

I said, "I know you way too well

You'll never really lose yourself

I bet we never get to lose ourselves again"

She said "Your love is setting slow

Concrete around my bones

I can't end up here"

But if she ends up wrecking when she goes

So far from the home where she was bound

Stuck, standing like a cross on a gravel road

I will be the one to bring her flowers

I will be the one to bring her flowers

I will be the one to bring her flowers