[Album title: Choose the Sun] [Intro] Warm acoustic guitar strumming with subtle pedal steel fill [Verse 1] I was looking at a photograph from nineteen-eighty-four Standing by a rusted truck outside the hardware store My boots were covered in the dust of a small town summer afternoon We thought we had all the time in the world under that southern moon [Pre-Chorus] Yeah, the years went by like telephone poles along Highway 9 And all those moments that I thought were small... were turning into gold [Chorus] 'Cause it ain't about the money that you leave when you are gone It’s the story in the laughter and the words inside a song It’s the hand you held through the darkest night And learning how to stand up for what is right Yeah, we start with a gravel road, turning into gold [Interlude] Acoustic guitar and crying pedal steel solo [Verse 2] I learned that love ain't something that you find just lying 'round It's built with quiet patience on a piece of solid ground It’s sitting on the porch when the rain begins to fall And knowing that the simplest things were the biggest things of all [Pre-Chorus] Yeah, the clock on the wall keeps ticking on, it never slows down So make every breath count before you leave this town... [Chorus] 'Cause it ain't about the money that you leave when you are gone It’s the story in the laughter and the words inside a song It’s the hand you held through the darkest night And learning how to stand up for what is right Yeah, we start with a gravel road, turning into gold [Bridge] And when I look back now across the miles I've flown... I wouldn't trade one single mile of the road I've known [Chorus] 'Cause it ain't about the money that you leave when you are gone It’s the story in the laughter and the words inside a song It’s the hand you held through the darkest night And learning how to stand up for what is right Yeah, we start with a gravel road, turning into gold [Outro] Yeah, a simple gravel road... Turning into gold Fade to end
