The story behind this song
He won her a goldfish at the county fair and she named it after him just to make him blush. They kissed by the funnel cake at closing while the ferris wheel shut down overhead, and every slow dance after that happened in crossed headlight beams, because the nearest dance floor was forty miles off. When the whole graduating class swore they'd leave town, the two of them looked at each other and stayed.
They bought the land her granddad used to lease, strung porch lights the day they wed, and the same water tower still watches from the tree line.
For the couple who built a whole life on the dirt road home and never once wished it paved.
Lyrics
Your boots beside mine on the dash
You named it after me to make me blush
Kissed you by the funnel cake at closing
While the ferris wheel shut down above us
Darlin', look what we found by staying down
Slow dance in the high beams, two-step all the way home
They can keep their city lights, I got your hand on the bench seat
Ten thousand gravel miles and you're still riding with me
Dirt road devotion
Strung lights across the porch the day we wed
Same water tower watching from the tree line
Same radio station, same old truck bed
And I still win you something, hand it over, watch you light up
Slow dance in the high beams, two-step all the way home
They can keep their city lights, I got your hand on the bench seat
Ten thousand gravel miles and you're still riding with me
Dirt road devotion
Pave it smooth and give it lanes
But I'll still pull off by the water tower
And dance you in the headlights just the same
Slow dance in the high beams, two-step all the way home
They can keep their city lights, I got your hand on the bench seat
Ten thousand gravel miles and you're still riding with me
Dirt road devotion
One more song, one more night
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