Almost 22

There was a night when the bottle won

And the devil knew my name

Dashboard glow on an empty road

And my heart was fallin’ like rain

Radio preachin’ salvation songs

But I couldn’t hear a sound

Just a cold dark thought in the back of my mind

Sayin’, “Son… just lay it down”

Somewhere in the silence

Through the whiskey and the pain

I heard a voice like thunder

Whisperin’ my name

I was one more soul from bein’ twenty-two

One more name they’d read in the evening news

One more ghost in a folded flag of blue

When the dark tried to claim my soul

But the good Lord grabbed my shoulder

Said, “Boy… you ain’t through”

Now every sunrise that I see

Is borrowed light I never knew

Yeah… I almost woke up

As number twenty-two

I wear my past like a battle scar

Not a chain around my neck

Every mile of road behind me

Is a ghost I won’t forget

Some nights the shadows whisper

Tryin’ to drag me back again

But I remember that cold dark road

And the man I almost been

I was one more soul from bein’ twenty-two

One more name they’d read in the evening news

One more ghost in a folded flag of blue

When the dark tried to claim my soul

But the good Lord grabbed my shoulder

Said, “Boy… you ain’t through”

Now every sunrise that I see

Is borrowed light I never knew

Yeah… I almost woke up

As number twenty-two

If you’re standin’ where I stood that night

With the world closin’ in on you

Brother, I swear that dawn will come

If you just make it through

And I won’t promise easy answers

Or a road without the rain

But sometimes just survivin’

Is the first step outta pain

I was one more soul from bein’ twenty-two

One more name they’d read in the evening news

One more ghost in a folded flag of blue

When the dark tried to claim my soul

But the good Lord grabbed my shoulder

Said, “Boy… you ain’t through”

Now every sunrise that I see

Is borrowed light I never knew

Yeah… I almost woke up

As number twenty-two