Emmylou

It’s a long way down to salvation from this town

But I don’t want to drive that far today

So I’ll just stay here but there’s nothing much to do

Count the cars and watch them roll away

In another time, I’d be on my way

But I don’t want to go back like before

Oh Emmylou, there’s an achin’ in my chest

Pain that will not rest

If redemption was a bell, this whole town would hear it ring

On this day of reckoning

Should I close my eyes, never look up to the sky

Do I turn away from everything we dreamed

Cause I don’t know if it matters anymore

But nothing is the way it used to be

In another life, I might have stayed

Now I don’t want to live here anymore

Oh Emmylou, there’s an achin’ in my chest

Pain that will not rest

If redemption was a bell, this whole town would hear it ring

On this day of reckoning