Three

Album: Road Less Traveled (2017)
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  • Three ways before I could even need
    My brother's son, didn't see him turn one or two
    Three months I haven't made Sunday service once
    I'm out on the road praying alone
    Every night for a sign that I'm doing this right
    And I'm right where I'm supposed to be

    Mama said, "you'll be a star"
    And daddy said, "you're gonna go far, all you gotta do is sing your heart out"
    A lot of miles, a lot of tears
    You've given me some of my best years
    There's so much I had to miss out on
    Six years of missing home for three minutes on the radio

    Three years of wishing that he was here holding my hand
    No I didn't plan for those three words
    To be the ones that hurt
    They don't sound the same from so far away

    Oh, my mama said, "you'll be a star"
    And daddy said, "you're gonna go far, all you gotta do is sing your heart out"
    A lot of miles, a lot of tears
    You've given me some of my best years
    There's so much I had to miss out on
    Six years of missing home for three minutes on the radio

    I'll do it for the three girls at my show
    Who saved up for the front row
    And the three times that I heard just this week that my words
    Were sang by three year old
    Hairbrush for a microphone
    Little girl with a dream
    And that girl was me, yeah

    My mama said, "you'll be a star"
    And daddy said, "you're gonna go far, all you gotta do is sing your heart out"
    A lot of miles, a lot of tears
    You've given me my best years
    There's so much I had to miss out on
    Six years of missing home
    But I'd spend fifty more gone for three minutes on the radio Writer/s: JORDAN REYNOLDS, LAUREN SUDDETH, SETH WILLIAM ENNIS
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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