00:11I was 10 years old when the front door closed
00:16Left me staring down an empty road
00:19I learned too young what a hard heart does
00:23How pain turns silence into dust
00:26I carried that anger like a rusted blade
00:30Cutting through the love that tried to stay
00:33But every scar became another line
00:36In the story of what I leave behind
00:40I can't rewrite the pages already turned
00:45But I can choose what the next ones learn
00:49I won't be measured by the battles I survived
00:53For every wrong turn on this long and restless ride
00:56Let the engines cool
00:58Let the years take what they find
01:00If my family knows I love them
01:03That's what I'll leave behind
01:05Not the hurt, not the anger, not the darkness in my mind
01:09Just a hand they could hold and a love that didn't hide
01:12When the final light is fading and I'm running out of time
01:16If they know how much I love them
01:19That's what I'll leave behind
01:27That's what I'll leave behind
01:29I wore my failures underneath my skin
01:32Like inked reminders of where I'd been
01:36Those open highways and midnight miles
01:38Gave me room to face myself a while
01:42Then love found cracks inside these walls
01:45Built a home where the shadows used to fall
01:48I couldn't give them some perfect man
01:52So I gave them everything I am
01:56I've made mistakes that I can't defend
01:59But I kept learning how to love again
02:02I won't be measured by the battles I survived
02:06For every wrong turn on this long and restless ride
02:09Let the engines cool
02:11Let the years take what they find
02:13If my family knows I love them
02:16That's what I'll leave behind
02:18Not the hurt, not the anger, not the darkness in my mind
02:22Just a hand they could hold and a love that didn't hide
02:25When the final light is fading and I'm running out of time
02:29If they know how much I love them
02:32That's what I'll leave behind
02:38Now little Penny climbs into my chair
02:41Like there's nowhere else she'd rather be than there
02:44She doesn't see the miles of my mistakes
02:47She only knows the time that grandpa makes
02:51When her tiny fingers wrap around my hand
02:54She makes me wanna be a better man
02:58If she grows up knowing she was my pride
03:01Then I've done something right with this life of mine
03:05When my name is written underneath the photograph
03:08And my voice is just an echo from the past
03:12Don't tell them I was never scared
03:14Tell them when it mattered I was there
03:17Tell them I was stubborn, tell them I was wild
03:20But I still had a heart beneath the miles
03:24I was never perfect, but God knows I tried
03:27To give more love than I was given in this life
03:32I won't be measured by the battles I survived
03:36Though every wrong turn on this long and restless ride
03:39Let the engines cool, let the ears take what they find
03:43If my family knows I love them
03:45That's what I'll leave behind
03:48Let the engines cool, let the old road unwind
03:52If my family knows I love them
03:56That's what I'll leave behind
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