Where You Get Off (Rory Bourke/Jamie Ferrugia/Richard Wold)
He’s driving a diesel out of Detroit City bound for Birmingham
Loaded down with brand new cadillacs
Twenty years on the road at 38 cents a mile
Knows he’ll never drive what’s hanging on the back
She’s leaving the blues in Baton Rouge for a job in Tennessee
Hoping for a geographic cure
Chevy runnin’ on borrowed time loaded down with all she owns
Will she make it, she can’t say for sure
And the road goes on
(Chorus)
Sometimes you take the road sometimes the road takes you
Somewhere you least expect it to
You can drive ‘til you’re weary you can drive ‘til you’re lost
But the only choice you ever get to make
Is where you get off
At a little diner off 65 he eased that big rig in
She was sittin’ at the counter on her second cup
She turned and smiled at him glanced at the empty chair
Next to her, without a word she’d said enough
Started talkin’ about their dreams and places they’d like to go
He laughed and winked and mentioned Mexico
She said if I could trade my Chevy in for one of your Escalades
You know, Tennessee just might have to wait
And the road goes on
(Repeat Chorus)
Two days later when the troopers came that truck held one less Escalade
A worn out Chevy sittin’ up there in its place
They turned that Chevy inside out ‘till they found his scribbled note
Grinned and shook their heads at what he wrote
(Repeat Chorus)
