If Love Is a Road

Lyrics

[Verse 1] You left your blue coat on my kitchen chair A paper map folded by the window there Your coffee cooled beside the garden door And I knew I wanted something more [Pre-Chorus] We took the long way past the county line You told me all your worst days, I told you mine [Chorus] If love is a road, let’s miss every turn Take the little back streets where the wildflowers burn With your hand in mine and the windows down We can make a home in any small town I don’t need a promise written in stone Just keep choosing me wherever we go If love is a road, then darling, let’s start One mile at a time, two beats apart [Verse 2] You laugh when the radio loses the song I sing the next verse, though I get it wrong At the diner, you steal the cherry from my pie Then draw a crooked heart on the receipt nearby [Pre-Chorus] The years may bring us weather, work, and change But I’ll know your face in every kind of rain [Chorus] If love is a road, let’s miss every turn Take the little back streets where the wildflowers burn With your hand in mine and the windows down We can make a home in any small town I don’t need a promise written in stone Just keep choosing me wherever we go If love is a road, then darling, let’s start One mile at a time, two beats apart [Bridge] When the house gets quiet and the bills stack high When the plans we drew don’t match the sky Put your shoulder next to mine again That’s how every forever begins [Final Chorus] If love is a road, let’s miss every turn Take the little back streets where the wildflowers burn With your hand in mine and the windows down We can make a home in any small town I don’t need a promise written in stone Just keep choosing me wherever we go If love is a road, then darling, let’s start One mile at a time, two beats apart [Outro] Your blue coat’s still hanging by the kitchen chair And I’m smiling because you’re still there