Tire Tracks

“Tire Tracks is a concept song. I read an interview with Dolly Parton, in which she talked about waking up in the wee hours of the morning to write songs, and the creativity she thought came naturally better at that time. I resolved to give it a whirl, and tire tracks basically wrote itself.” -Jake Stilson

Tire Tracks - Lyrics

Well…

We’ll leave only tire tracks

And take only memories

I know a trail that winds its way

On back through the trees

To a clearing in the moonlight

Where we can fool around all night

Aw, Baby, just you and me

Making sweet loving memories

Let’s take that old county road

that sorta goes through

See what kind of trouble we can get up to

Got a four wheel drive that just don’t work quite right

I’m not so secretly hoping we get stuck tonight

We’ll leave only tire tracks

And we’ll take only memories

I know a trail that winds its way

On back through the trees

To a clearing in the moonlight

Where we can fool around all night

Aw, Baby, just you and me

Making sweet loving memories

Got a cold case of beer if you want one

If you want dinner I’ll catch you some

My old fishin’ pole sits behind the seat

And I can see the mayflies on the creek

We’ll leave only tire tracks

And we’ll take only memories

I know a trail that winds its way

On back through the trees

To a clearing in the moonlight

Where we can fool around all night

Aw, Baby, just you and me

Making sweet loving memories