No Saints on This Road

NO SAINTS ON THIS ROAD NO SAINTS ON THIS ROAD

Verse 1 I have prayed in a moving car at ninety-five To a god who only answers if you don't survive Counted my sins on a steering wheel Ran out of fingers, kept the ones that feel There's no chapel on the interstate at three Just a billboard Jesus pointing past me He's got an exit number and a phone to call I've got a brother's signature and that's all

Pre-Chorus No light, no toll No way to pay The road keeps the saints And it sells the rest away

Chorus There's no saints on this road, just men who didn't turn No saints on this road, just lessons you don't learn I'm not asking to be saved, I'm asking for the line No saints on this road, and the only ghost out here is mine

Verse 2 They put up little crosses where the curves go wrong White against the weeds, a quiet little song I used to read them fast and look away Now I read them slow, like a route I'll drive someday Every one of them had a reason to get home Every one of them is roadside, white, alone I don't slow down, I tip my chin and go We don't bury our own out here, we just let them show

Pre-Chorus No light, no toll No way to pay The road keeps the saints And it sells the rest away

Chorus There's no saints on this road, just men who didn't turn No saints on this road, just lessons you don't learn I'm not asking to be saved, I'm asking for the line No saints on this road, and the only ghost out here is mine

Bridge Somewhere there's a man who never had to drive. He votes, he sleeps, he keeps his hands clean and alive. He's not better than me. He just got born one road over, where the crosses have names and somebody comes to cut the grass. There's no saints on this road, just men who didn't turn No saints on this road, just lessons you don't learn I'm not asking to be saved, I'm asking for the line No saints on this road, and the only ghost out here is mine

Outro The only ghost out here is mine

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