Empty Passenger Seat

Headlights cut a line through the dust tonight

My old truck shakes like it knows my name

Your cap ain't hanging by the window now Just that worn out

seat and the picture frame

I still turn to laugh at the things you'd say

Then the gravel answers back the same

So I talk to the dark where the fence posts lean

Ask the sky if you still ride with me

And I send one more prayer through the cab

Hey brother, are you somewhere past these pines

Hearing these tires sing over county lines

Lord, keep him close when this road gets long

Let a little peace roll in with the dawn

I'm driving on, but I ain't alone

Your memory rides me home

We used to chase that river

after harvest rain Talk big plans under a harvest moon

You said grace over coffee from a station cup

Said heaven feels closer before noon Now I pass that church with

my hand on the wheel

Trying hard to believe

like you do

God, I know You heard him better than I

did

If he's in Your light,

let him know I'm trying

Some nights this cab

is all I've got

But tonight these tears feel less like dying

Hey brother, are you somewhere past these pines

Hearing these tires sing over county lines

Lord, keep him close when this road gets long

Let a little peace roll in with the dawn

I'm driving on,

but I ain't alone

Your memory rides me home

That empty seat don't feel so cold On this long road home