By Your Side

The embers glowing orange logs are stacked and the smoke rises higher
 And you're preaching to the when you say the rapids from the river couldn't drown this fire
 And the leaves weren't the only thing falling
 I stare out the window and I wait
 I watched it all play out in an instant
 I wasn't afraid
 The glory of a backroad I sat shotgun and sang harmony beside her
 from the blue ridge to the coast the notes they flow just like the ghost of Carolina
 And the leaves weren't the only thing falling
 I stare out the window and wait
 I watched it all play out in an instant
 I wasn't afraid
 And I know now what's worth fighting for
 I feel you in my bones
 Filled to the brim and wanting more a love I've never known, never known
 we're on 40 east now not much longer babe we'll be home soon
 but honestly you and me we can be broke down and that'd be fine too
 And the leaves weren't the only thing falling
 I stare out the window and wait
 I watched it all play out in an instant
 I wasn't afraid
 I wasn't afraid