We've come a long way since Wilmore
And every other thing we've done
Become so much more than
The banker's daughter and the preacher's son
And it's a long day at the sugar mill
When I'm rising before the dawn
We're gathering it all up
And soon we'll be gone
And the scriptures we knew so well
We traded for the open road
And the hissing of the summer lawns
The promise of our new home
Crossing the muddy wide Missouri
In our yellow Japanese car
Yuri's panting in the backseat
How did we ever get this far
In the mountains of Colorado
In the record-breaking heat
Yuri's song plays on the radio
Willie's singing us to sleep
And the scriptures we knew so well
We traded for the open road
And the hissing of the summer lawns
The promise of our new home
They need more men on the oil field
And I'm hoping I'll fit the bill
So we can get out of this tent and settle down
Cause I'm worried we never will
And we're headed back down seventy-five
Wondering what was all of this for
And as the sun sets on the Gulf coast
Could we have asked for more
And the trees are getting more familiar
But it won't be in defeat
Cause along the way we realized
We are all that we need
And the scriptures we knew so well
We traded for the open road
And the hissing of the summer lawns
The promise of our new home
Of our new home