Road to Abilene Lyrics | R.J. Sloane
Road to Abilene is an outlaw country duet by R.J. Sloane featuring Hunter Sloane about pulling out of the driveway of a home that's been sold, and realizing the walls held more than either of them knew how to carry.
The truck's loaded, the porch light's off, and the road ahead doesn't make the leaving any easier. This isn't a song about a house, it's about the place they healed without meaning to, and what it costs to walk away from it whole.
VERSE 1
Empty rooms
Echo back at us
Nothing left
But the dust and the walls
Pull the door shut
Slip the key from the lock
Years of memories
All washed up
PRE-CHORUS
Truck's loaded down
Every corner we called ours
Boxed and taped
Traded for somewhere new
CHORUS
Headed to Abilene
Everything we built
Riding in the truck behind us
This old house
Never just wood and nails
Became the place we healed
Headed to Abilene
Now adrift
Don't know who we are
Without these walls
Full of memories
VERSE 2
Stand in the drive
One last look before we go
Porch light off
As the darkness grows
Count the years
Like the rings of a tree
Every one holds so much
But it's time to leave
PRE-CHORUS
Truck's loaded down
Every corner we called ours
Boxed and taped
Traded for somewhere new
CHORUS
Headed to Abilene
Everything we built
Riding in the truck behind us
This old house
Never just wood and nails
Became the place we healed
Headed to Abilene
Now adrift
Don't know who we are
Without these walls
Full of memories
BRIDGE
Maybe home was never
Four walls and a roof
Maybe it was just
Every moment between us
Leaving empty-handed now
Is the only way to prove
We carry what mattered
Long past the lane
In our rearview mirror
FINAL CHORUS
Headed to Abilene
Everything we built
Riding in the truck behind us
This old house
Never just wood and nails
Became the place we healed
Headed to Abilene
Now adrift
Don't know who we are
Without these walls
Full of memories
OUTRO
Goodbye old friend
Pull the door shut
One last time
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