Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell)

She was born on a farm, working the clay

She ran off when she was sixteen

Down a long country road with nowhere to go

She knew that she had to leave

She hopped a one-way train with a ticket to ride

In the third class back with the others

She watched the farm fade away, just hoping and praying

She’d have a better life than her mother’s

It’s a long, long way from where we’ve been

The here and now is better than it was back then

Today may break your heart, but tomorrow holds the key

We’ve come so far, but the best is yet to be

He was born on the farm, but he didn’t wanna stay

His daddy said he was a fool

So he crept away in the dead of night

And got a steamer out of Liverpool

Well, it’s far, far away from the green fields at home

To the wild Atlantic gray

He was hoping for work and he prayed for the love

Waiting half a world away

It’s a long, long way from where we’ve been

The here and now is better than it was back then

Today may break your heart, but tomorrow holds the key

We’ve come so far, but the best is yet to be

She was mopping the floor, he was working the bar

It was a divine collision of the human heart

It was east of her and west of him

They were wishing on the same bright star

And then the baby was a brand new start

In the hollow of his hand

The road is rising up to meet them