Kingston Pike

What do you do when the sky falls apart?
When the whole damn thing goes crumbling
Strips your body for its parts?
When the Fates slip with their scissors, making liars out of stars
What do you do when the sky falls apart?

What do you say to make it through the night?
To remember how to breathe again
When you fall from such a height?
Yeah, I'm going home to Nashville
Headed West on Kingston Pike
What do you say to make it through the night?

Oh, I tried my best
Guess it never came out right
That’s the thing about a flight risk
Yeah, she'll trade you for the sky
And oh, my mind's a mess, too much for my crooked tongue
I’ll take my place there in her history, she'll take hers in all my songs

How do you mend this tearing at the seams
Cause loving her is still in your bones and muscle memory
When you turn to her on instinct but she's just out of your reach
How do you mend this tearing at the seams?

Oh, I tried my best
Guess it never came out right
That's the thing about a flight risk
Yeah, she'll trade you for the sky
And oh, my mind's a mess, too much for my crooked tongue
I'll take my place there in her history, she'll take hers in all my songs

And maybe all the promises I ever made
Were nothing more than building up a gilded cage

Oh, I tried my best
Guess it never came out right
That’s the thing about a flight risk
Yeah, she’ll trade you for the sky
And oh, my mind's a mess too much for my crooked tongue
I’ll take my place there in her history, she'll take hers in all my songs

So how do you learn the art of letting go?
When we spent days dreaming of futures that I'll never get to know
I held promises like diamonds, didn't matter how they shone
So how do you learn the art of letting go?