Featured In
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Rodney Atkins
Lead Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Rhett Akins
Songwriter
Luke Laird
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Rodney Atkins
Producer
Ted Hewitt
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sitting in that six lane, backed up traffic
Horns are honking, I've about had it
I'm looking for an exit sign
Gotta get out of here
Get it all off my mind
And like a memory from you grandpa's attic
A song comes slipping through the radio static
Changing my mood
A little George Strait 1982
[Verse 2]
And it makes me wanna take a back road
Makes me wanna take the long way home
Put a little gravel in my travel
Unwind, unravel all night long
[Verse 3]
Makes me wanna grab my honey
Tear down some two lane country
Who knows?
Get lost and get right with my soul
Makes me wanna take
Makes me wanna take a back road
[Verse 4]
I've been cooped up, tied down, 'bout forgotten
What a field looks like full of corn and cotton
If I'm gonna hit a traffic jam
Well it better be a tractor man
So sick and tired of this interstate system
I need a curve and wind a twisting
Dusty path to nowhere
With the wind blowing through my baby's hair
[Verse 5]
And it makes me wanna take a back road
Makes me wanna take the long way home
Put a little gravel in my travel
Unwind, unravel all night long
[Verse 6]
Makes me wanna grab my honey
Tear down some two lane country
Who knows?
Get lost and get right with my soul
Makes me wanna take
Makes me wanna take a back road
Some old back road
[Verse 7]
Maybe it's the feeling
Or maybe it's the freedom
Maybe it's that shady spot
Where we park the truck when things get hot
Girl, we park the truck when things get hot
[Verse 8]
And it makes me wanna take a back road
Makes me wanna take the long way home
Put a little gravel in my travel
Unwind, unravel all night long
[Verse 9]
Makes me wanna grab you honey
Tear down some two lane country
Who knows?
Get lost and get right with my soul
Makes me wanna take
Makes me wanna take a back road
[Verse 10]
Some old back road
Get right with my soul
Now all I gotta do is take some old back road
To the shady spot where things get hot girl
Way down, way down, way down some old back road
Written by: Rhett Akins, Luke Laird