Golden Highway Dreams

Screen door banging in the August wind

Main street waving like it always did

Mama held my jacket at the county line Said go find your

name, don't leave your heart behind I got a map,

a tank, and a dash full of dawn

A little scared, but I was already gone

Every mile opened up the sky

I could feel my whole life turning wide I'm driving toward a

burning gold horizon With my hands on hope and my heart still

rising From a one-stop town to a big unknown

Carrying the roots that raised my soul If I fall,

I'll learn, if I fly,

I'll know That the road was calling me to grow

I'm not running from where I'm from

I'm just chasing who I'll become

City signs flickered through the windshield rain I took late-night shifts and

I learned the train

Some days all I had was a coffee and a prayer But

I heard my future breathing in the air I kept her picture

tucked above the steering wheel To remind me what a brave heart

feels And when the homesick hits me like a storm I wear

my hometown like a lucky charm

It isn't gone, it's in my blood

It pushed me out and lifted me up

I'm driving toward a burning gold horizon With my hands on hope

and my heart still rising From a one-stop town to a big

unknown Carrying the roots that raised my soul If I fall,

I'll learn, if I fly,

I'll know That the road was calling me to grow

I'm not running from where I'm from

I'm just chasing who I'll become

Oh, who I'll become

Oh, who I'll become