Vincent Mason - The Breakdown

Well the car broke down in a one stop town
Just before he was about to turn around
Not a single city limit sign
To see where he’s at

When you’re out that far your only options are
Getting gone in the town dive bar
And if you knew him
You’d know he’s good at that

He was looking for peace
With every new drink that he’d start
But the words that made him leave
Stuck with him like a scar

She said when i’m with you life spins around
I can feel us flying so don’t look down
Won’t you hold my hand real tight so you don’t drop me
She said there ain’t a better time to decide if you want me

Well that bartender saw him and those eleven
Empty shot glasses so he went and started guessin
What it was that was tearing him apart

Well the man said listen my storys kinda different
Pay close attention cause you might not get it
But lets just say it was trouble from the start

She told me that she loved me
And i should feel so blessed
But the thought of hurting that girl
Scares me half to death

He said when i’m with her life spins around
I can feel her flying but i weigh her down
If she’s got me she can’t get where she needs to go
She may not see that now but one day she’ll know

Well the girl back home found that note
Tears started staining all the words he wrote
While he was trying to get that old Ford on the road

She read his words again and again
He broke her heart with truck keys and a pen
But she’ll keep this line until she’s old

“Well I just talked to God and we feel this is best
Trust me if i didn’t love you I’d have never left”

The truck got fixed
The note got flipped
The breakdowns over but anothers setting in
They said hang a left and the 66 will get you West

As the years went by her life spun back around
He’s on the knee the last one never found
Soon they’ll be diamond ringin wedding bells

But she still has nights where her eyes don’t close
And she sits outside her front porch window
Hoping somehow someway she can wish him well

But he’s all alone in nobody knows where
But if he listens real close he still hears her in the air