I'll take the back roads home
through the open countryside
Letting things slip by in
I'll take the long way home on
the back roads of this life
Taking time to see what goes by
And a back road is so easy it
Take it or leave it, as it rolls along,
drifts through things it cannot change and doesn't
Wouldn't that be something for you and
Come in and go in, there's no dividing line,
what you're heading for, someone left behind.
And the shortest road ain't always the best,
sometime let a back road take you home.
In any place you're bound, well,
you'll get there some day.
You're the one who chooses
what you see along the way.
And when the heartaches seem too
And the shortest road ain't
Sometime let a back road take
Sometime let a back road take you home