The Drive

(Verse 1)
The early morning got me yawning I can hardly sleep
Squeezing my life into the back of my jeep
My sigh of relief competes with sighs of grief
Hugging my moms, telling her that I'ma keep her number in reach
I'm heading, westbound, outta town on a raggedy road
Four hundred miles until I feel half-grown
The life that I've know, becoming the past
Foot on the gas, wind in my hair
The wheel guided by god's hands
I feel emotional leaving for a season told my lady goodbye
I'll write you letters hope you send a reply
We'll meet again at the end of July
I don't know why but somehow
I feel by then I'll be a different guy
The winds are showin' my future in clear view
All of my doubts I steer through
My adolescence in rear view
Now it's quarter past yesterday
Feeling not so long ago, but yet so far away, yo

(Chorus)
Get in your car and drive
You never know what you just might find
On this road of life
Are you living
Or just along for the ride

(Verse 2)
I step foot into the car, release the brake pedal
Key to ignition, thinking of drifting a little
Warm feeling comes over as the engine turns over
More for rush of excitement
Thinking about my little man and plans for the evening
I see god and his smile gives me more of a reason to keep breathing
And keep reading
To teach ceilings that life, meaning is more than Spongebob
Give a break to his ma
The highlight of my week
Seeing the world as a child of Earth
Spins a little different, it's raw and unsifted
Every minute is prolific only once in my time
So where my father dropped the ball I gotta catch it
So he can have someone to play catch with
Supporting a child means aborting my selfishness
Reorder my time to do more for this kid
Even though he's not mine
Try to be a guiding light so we can make this ride, yo

(Chorus x2)
Get in your car and drive
You never know what you just might find
On this road of life
Are you living
Or just along for the ride

(Verse 3)
She got the windows down, the sound escapes
So god I thank you for somehow she found the strength to break through
Knowing it's the
Going that makes you appreciate the place to which it takes you
And it's taking her to two in the morning so we can eat right
Children sleeping through but she's yawning under the streetlight
She says sleep tight
She speaks right to the heart of me
I know she's working hard for me as we escape from poverty
The certainty and lottery
Neither were her wages as she struggle to survive another fifteen hour day
When the money is the trouble, doubles turn into triple shifts
Funny how it humbles you to understand the simple gifts
And by this I'm reminded
The power of love, the only reason why she's driving
And though I'm miles away, just trying to rock a microphone
I know my mom's thinking of me on the ride home, yeah

(Chorus X 2)
Get in your car and drive
You never know what you just might find
On this road of life
Are you living
Or just along for the ride