Northbound on a Southound Train Lyrics

He's a tourist.

He vacations in people's lives, takes pictures

Puts them in his scrapbook, and moves on

All he's interested in are his stories

I speak my life and y'all listen, all the hell that I've been in

I'm hoping if I get it out, one day I'll be forgiven

If I can break with tradition, erase the rulebook unwritten

Looking at my future now like what's the correct decision

With one little change would I still be in this hole

Would it finally fuel the light that's out inside my soul

Leaves me feeling empty with no shoulder to cry on

Standing at the summit like, this the hill I'ma die on

Pick up all the pieces and try to hold it together

Think of brighter days when living through colder weather

Or the day when it finally all means something

Headed wrong way on the tracks and that train's coming

I've made mistakes, I've caused some pain

I only hold myself to blame

It stains my soul with so much shame

Living my life in this cloud of rain

If I passed tonight, would y'all remember my name

In the search for the light, brighter burns out the flame

On a broken road build a brand-new lane

Going Northbound on a Southbound Train

Sometimes I wish I had a little more story to my life

I wish I could go back and do some things right

Wish I left this town, went away to a college

Not stayed home with my friends getting high, I acknowledge

All that mistakes I've made that kept me where I'm at

The things I would change if I only could go back

The things that'd be different if I had better crafts

Leaves me looking back and wondering if it's that

My (father's) up in chemo, I'm down here smoking like a chimney

Only thinking about myself, that's that sociopath in me

I won't change so what I say just means nothing

Headed wrong way on the tracks that dam train's coming

I've made mistakes, I've caused some pain

I only hold myself to blame

It stains my soul with so much shame

Living my life in this cloud of rain

If I passed tonight, would y'all remember my name

In the search for the light, brighter burns out the flame

On a broken road build a brand-new lane

Going Northbound on a Southbound Train

I speak my life and y'all listen, all the hell that I'm living

This music shit ain't taking off, should get back to the kitchen

At 32 you gon' switch it, suddenly change position

Looking back from 37 like man what was you thinking

What was you thinking? What was you thinking

You thinking

Man, what the fuck were you thinking

I've made mistakes, I've caused some pain

I only hold myself to blame

It stains my soul with so much shame

Living my life in this cloud of rain

If I passed tonight, would y'all remember my name

In the search for the light, brighter burns out the flame

On a broken road build a brand-new lane

Going Northbound on a Southbound Train