Boots In The Dirt

I gave you the best of my younger days,

Chased your shadows through a thousand mistakes,

Thought if I loved you a little more,

You’d finally become what I was waiting for.

I bent myself till I barely knew

The girl in the mirror I used to be too.

Yeah, I called it love,

but looking back now,

I was losing me just trying to hold you down.

But one day I woke up and something changed,

I looked in the mirror and remembered my name.

I wasted my youth on a man who couldn't measure up,

Gave him all my heart and he still wasn't enough.

I thought walking away meant I was losing my life,

Turns out I was finally getting mine.

Now I'm boots in the dirt,

wild and free, Fishing at sunrise,

chasing what makes me me.

I don't need a man to tell me who I am— I

found myself when I finally let go of him.

Yeah, I wasted my youth…

But I found the rest of my life.

(yeah, found it now)

Now there's a smile on my face again,

I'm laughing like I did way back when.

Got a truck full of gear and a tank full of gas,

A whole lot of memories I ain't made yet to have.

I'm chasing sunsets instead of apologies,

Choosing my peace over somebody else's needs.

And every mile down this open road

Feels like another piece of me coming home.

I don't hate you,

baby, that's the truth,

I just wish I'd known what I know now back then too.

Here's to the girl who stayed too long,

Here's to the tears that made her strong.

Here's to every year I can't get back— I ain't gonna spend

one more looking back.

'Cause the woman standing here tonight Isn't asking anybody for permission to

shine.

I wasted my youth on a man who couldn't measure up,

But losing him was the best thing that ever shook me up.

I thought my story ended

when I walked away,

But girl, that's when I started living my way.

Now I'm boots in the dirt,

wild and free, Chasing every little thing that sets my soul at

ease. I'm loving myself like I should've all along,

Singing my own damn freedom song.

Yeah, I wasted my youth… But I found my heart,

I found my fire,

I found the woman I was meant to be.

(I found her!) So here's to the years I can't rewind,

And here's to the ones I'm gonna make mine.

He couldn't measure up… But now I don't need him to.

I'm finally happy—

I'm finally me.