A Cross on a Gravel Road

I said ‘Elizabeth, I know
You can’t wait to get out of here
But I bet you look back when you’re leaving’
We were the lone lights on the road
Drifting over county lines
A bottle at our feet
She said ‘I know this place too well
to lose myself
and I just wanna lose myself again’
She said ‘we could die tonight
but there’s thousands yet ahead and I...
I can’t spend them here’

And I said, ‘If you end up wrecking all alone
So far from your name you can’t be found
And stranded like a cross on a gravel road
Who’d be the one to bring you flowers?
Who’d be the one to bring you flowers?’

I said ‘Elizabeth, there is a grace
In dying in the very place
You were born’
In the dashboard glow
I swore i saw her eyes roll
Or stow away a tear
I said ‘I know you way too well
You’ll never really lose yourself
I bet we never get to lose ourselves again’
But our love was setting slow
Concrete around her bones
She’d never end up here

But if she ends up wrecking when she goes
So far from the home where she was bound
Stuck standing like a cross on a gravel road
I would be the one to bring her flowers
I would be the one to bring her flowers
I would be the one to bring her flowers

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