Zach Bryan - This Road I Know

Capo: 7th fret

[Intro]
Fadd9 C G Am
Fmaj7 C G
This a poem I wrote called “This Road I Know”

[Verse]
F C G Am
There’s this flash I get often, a fever dream or a vision of sorts
F C G Am
Most times late at night and I haven’t found out why, but I know exactly why
F C
I’m on this road, and I hear gravel underneath me, and I feel it too
G Am
And I don’t know where I am, but I know exactly where I am
F C G Am
It’s dark, it’s really dark and the car is warm, but somehow I can feel how cold the night is
F C G Am
I don’t know where the road leads, but I know exactly where it ends
F C G Am
You see, I keep driving, and all I see for the longest while is my headlights for an eternity, it seems
F C G Am
And everything is desolate and empty and nothing and hopeless
F C G Am
I’m lost, but I know where I’m going, I’m safe, I’m warm, I’m driving and I see this small light
F C G Am
A dim one, growing brighter and bigger and closer and stronger and the closer I get, the more I see
F C G
I make out a house with light strewn across it, a porch, some cars
Am F
Some frosted windshields that hadn’t been touched for hours
C G Am
I hear a song, and it’s faint, I can’t make out the name, but I know every word
F C G Am
I feel my feet first, and it’s cold and they’re crunching, and it’s the sound of driveways
F C
And the wind takes my breath with it
G Am
And then I walk up to this door and I knock, even though I feel I don’t have to
F C
And I don’t know where I am, but I know exactly where I am
G Am F
And this crack of light widens on this porch underneath me as this door opens
C G
And this brown-haired girl with the brightest smile
Am F C G
I don’t know who she is, but I know her so well and behind her, the warmest home I’d ever seen
Am F C G
It’s orange and comfortable, there’s fire and it’s bulb-lit
Am
She says
F C G
“Where have you been? We’ve been waiting on you all night, we’ve missed you”
Am F
She says through the kindest smirk I’d seen in so long
C G Am
Then she tapers off the sentence with the, with the peaceful sound that a lady makes
F C
She grabs me on my forearms, pulls softly into the dining room
G Am
There’s people and they’re happy and they’re content for one
F C
I don’t know who they are, but I know exactly who they are
G Am
And we’re all standing and I’m laughing at a joke I’ll never hear again
F C
I don’t know where I am but I know exactly where I am
G Am
And then she tucks her head between my collar as a friend
F
Between my collar and my jaw, and there’s no weight at all
C G
And I don’t know where I am, but there’s no weight at all
Am F
It’s laughter and grins and no tomorrow to win
C G
And I don’t know where I am, but I know exactly where I am

[Outro]
Am
I don’t know where I am, but I know exactly where I am