Sittin' in six-lane
backed up traffic
Horns are honkin'
I've about had it
I'm lookin' for an exit sign
Gotta get outta here
Get it all off my mind
And like a memory
from your grandpa's attic
A song comes slippin'
through the radio static
Changin' my mood
A little George Strait 1982
And it makes me wanna
take a back road
Makes me wanna
take the long way home
Throw a little gravel
in my travel
Unwind unravel
all night long
Makes me wanna
grab my honey
Tear down some
two-lane country
Who knows
Get lost and get right
with my soul
Makes me wanna take
Makes me wanna take
a back road
I've been cooped up tied down
'Bout forgotten
what a field looks like
full of corn and cotton
If I'm gonna
hit a traffic jam
Well it better
be a tractor man
So sick and tired
of this interstate system
I need a curve
a wind and twistin'
Dusty path to nowhere
With the wind blowin'
through my baby's hair
Makes me wanna
take a back road
Makes me wanna
take the long way home
Put a little gravel
in my travel
Unwind unravel
all night long
Makes me wanna
grab my honey
Tear down some
two-lane country
Who knows
Get lost and get right
with my soul
Makes me wanna take
Makes me wanna take
a back road
Some old back road
Maybe it's the feelin'
Or maybe it's the freedom
Maybe it's that shady spot
Where we park the truck
when things get hot
Girl we park the truck
when things get hot
And it makes me wanna
take a back road
Makes me wanna
take the long way home
Put a little gravel
in my travel
Unwind unravel
all night long
Makes me wanna
grab my honey
Tear down some
two-lane country
Who knows
Get lost and get right
with my soul
Makes me wanna take
Makes me wanna take
a back road
Some old back road
Do right with my soul
Now all I gotta do is take
some old back road
To the shady spot
where things get hot girl
Way down
Way down
Way down
some old back road