I Drive Your Truck

Album: Hard 2 Love (2012)
Charted: 47
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  • Eighty-nine cents in the ash tray
    Half empty bottle of Gatorade rolling in the floorboard
    That dirty Braves cap on the dash
    Dog tags hanging from the rear view
    Old Skoal can, and cowboy boots and a Go Army Shirt
    Folded in the back
    This thing burns gas like crazy but that's alright
    People got their ways of coping
    Oh, and I've got mine

    I drive your truck
    I roll every window down and I burn up
    Every back road in this town
    I find a field, I tear it up
    'Til all the pain's a cloud of dust
    Yeah, sometimes I drive your truck

    I leave that radio playing
    Same old country station where you left it
    Yeah, man I crank it up
    And you'd probably punch my arm right now
    If you saw this tear rolling down on my face
    Hey, man I'm trying to be tough
    And mama asked me this morning, if I'd been by your grave
    But that flag and stone ain't where I feel you anyway

    I drive your truck
    I roll every window down and I burn up
    Every back road in this town
    I find a field, I tear it up
    'Til all the pain's a cloud of dust
    Yeah, sometimes I drive your truck

    I've cussed, I've prayed, I've said goodbye
    Shook my fist and asked God why
    These days when I'm missing you this much

    I drive your truck
    I roll every window down
    And I burn up
    Every back road in this town
    I find a field, I tear it up
    'Til all the pain's a cloud of dust
    Yeah, sometimes
    Brother sometimes

    I drive your truck, mm
    I drive your truck
    I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
    I drive your truck Writer/s: Connie Harrington, James Yeary, Jessica Alexander
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Walt Disney Music Company, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Sweet PeaI love to hear this song
  • Robert White from Randolph MaThis song was about my old high school teacher's cousin.
  • Pam from Gilbert, AzIf you want to know the story about the soldier it was written about, look up Jared C. Monti. His father Paul Monti is the one being interviewed.
    Jared had been in the Army for years. When he died in combat he was a Staff Sergeant 1st Class. He also received the highest medal of Honor for Valor. His combat unit was surrounded and he had tried 3 times to save a soldier in his combat unit. He died In the process. He had been in the army for about 13 years. He was deployed to Kosovo prior to going to Afghanistan.
  • Jack from Newton, MaThe original radio interview was on public radio's Here and Now show and the reporter was Alex Ashlock. Here's a link to the interview: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/05/17/paul-monti-truck
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