The Longest Road Home Lyrics

Six AM at Jerry's Truck Stop

Coffee black and bacon burnt

Waitress asks what's got me running

Can't she see how much I hurt

Through the window, dawn is breaking

Over fields and county lines

Each mile marker tells a story

Of the life I left behind

They say time mends broken stories

Like the dawn breaks through the night

But my heart kept building walls up

Till your love lit up my life

Mercy takes the longest road home

Through the valleys dark and steep

Past the mountains standing tall

And the pain I buried deep

Every mile was leading to you

Though I couldn't see it then

Mercy takes the longest road home

Till a heart can hope again

Then you walked into my story

Like a sunrise breaking clear

Turned my walls to open windows

Till my heart could reappear

Now these wheels don't feel so heavy

Looking back on where I've been

Every goodbye gets me closer

To where new love can begin

Mercy takes the longest road home

Through the valleys dark and steep

Past the mountains standing tall

And the pain I buried deep

Every mile was leading to you

Though I couldn't see it then

Mercy takes the longest road home

Till a heart can love again

Stopped here at this old crossroads

All at once the way is clear

Every wrong turn led me to you

Now it's straight to you I steer

Mercy takes the longest road home

Through the valleys dark and steep

Past the mountains standing tall

And the hurt I tried to keep

Every mile was leading to you

I can see it all again

Mercy takes the longest road home

Till two hearts become one, amen

Back at Jerry's Truck Stop

Morning light so soft and blue

Biscuits fresh and coffee's hot

Finally made it home to you