You Follow Me

Verse:
12 miles south of Austin
Just before a cold rain
Breathin’ in the dust of a rundown truck stop
I saw you again

In the simple smile of a wide-eyed girl
Hangin’ on her daddy’s knee
It took me back to the early days
When you looked that way at me

Pre-Chorus:
From here to anywhere
As the map of life unfolds
You always seem to turn up
Everywhere I go

Chorus:
You follow me like my shadow on the ground
Like sun-up hot on the heels of sundown
You follow me through laughter and the pain
Like winter after autumn and summer after spring
You follow me.

Verse:
Right outside Flagstaff
At an all night café
I was smoking my last cigarette
When I overheard her say
“Baby what’s it going to take for me to get your attention?
Do I have to walk right out that door for you to feel that somethin’s missing?”

Pre-Chorus:
not so long ago
that was me there in his shoes
to stubborn to know
what I stood to lose

Chorus:
You follow me like my shadow on the ground
Like sun-up hot on the heels of sundown
You follow me through laughter and the pain
Like winter after autumn and summer after spring
You follow me.

Bridge:
from Baton Rouge, Aberdeen, to Little Rock to Bowling Green
Bakersfield, San Antone, everywhere I go…you follow me

Chorus: