If I Lay It Down

The highway’s been my story, the blacktop tells my name,
Every mile a memory, every night a flame.
Chrome and steel beneath me, thunder in my veins,
If I don’t make the morning, remember why I came.

If I lay it down, don’t you weep for me,
Just cover me in gravel where the highway breathes.
I lived my life wide open, no regrets to see,
If I lay it down, let the road remember me.

The wind has been my witness, the stars my only guide,
I’ve tasted every freedom a man can find in life.
If the ride should end tomorrow, don’t hang your head in pain,
For I’d do it all again — I’d ride it just the same.

If I lay it down, don’t you weep for me,
Just cover me in gravel where the highway breathes.
I lived my life wide open, no regrets to see,
If I lay it down, let the road remember me.

Don’t build no stone, don’t carve my name,
The road I loved will stake my claim.
In the rumble of engines, in the cry of the sky,
You’ll hear me rollin’, I’ll never die.

If I lay it down, don’t you weep for me,
Just cover me in gravel where the highway breathes.
I lived my life wide open, no regrets to see,
If I lay it down… let the road remember me.

So if I lay it down, let the road remember me.

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Writers: HL Shields/Songsmith