This Road I Know original guitar chords by
Zach Bryan

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Key: E minor

Intro 1

Cadd9

G

D

Em7

Cmaj7

G

D

This is a poem I wrote called

Verse 1
"This road I Know"
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There's this flash I get often,
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a fever dream or a vision of sorts
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Most times late at night
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And I haven't found out why,
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but I know exactly why
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I'm on this road and I hear gravel
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underneath me and I feel it too
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And I don't know where I am,
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but I know exactly where I am
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It's dark, It's really dark
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And the car is warm but somehow I can feel
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how cold the night is
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I don't know where the road leads
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but I know exactly where it ends
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You see I keep driving
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And all I see for the longest while
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is my headlights, for an eternity    it seems
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And everything is desolate and empty
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and nothing and hopeless
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I'm lost but I know where I'm going
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I'm safe, I'm warm, I'm driving
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And I see this small light
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A dim one, growing brighter and bigger
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and closer and stronger
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And the closer I get the more I see
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I make out a house with light strewn across it,
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a porch, and cars
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Some frosted windshields
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that haven't been touched for hours
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I  hear a song, and it's faint,
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I can't make out the name
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but i know every word
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I feel my feet first,
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and it's cold and there's crunching,
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and its the sound of driveways
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And the wind takes takes my breath with it
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Then I walk up to this door and knock,
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even though I feel I don't have  to
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And I don't know where I am
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but I know exactly where I am
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And this crack of light widens
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on    this porch underneath me
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as this door opens
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And this brown haired girl
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with the brightest smile
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I     don't know who she is
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but I know her so well
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And behind her
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the warmest home I'd ever seen
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Its orange and comfortable, there's fire
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and it's bulb lit
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She says

Verse 2
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"Where have you been?
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I've been waiting for you all night,
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we've missed you"
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She says   through the kindest smirk
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I've seen in so long
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Then she tapers off   the sentence
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with the peaceful sound that a lady makes
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She grabs me on the forearms
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and pulls softly into the dining room
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And there's people
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and they're happy    and content for one
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I don't know who they are
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but I know exactly who they are
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And we're all standing
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and I'm laughing at a joke I'll never hear  again
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I don't know where I am
but I know exactly where I am
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And then she tucks her head
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between my collar as a friend
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Between my collar and my jaw
and there's no weight at all
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And I don't know where I am
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but there's no weight at all
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It's  laughter and greens
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and no tomorrow to win
And I don't know where I am
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Em7 Em7 
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but I know  exactly where I am
I don't know where I am
but I know exactly where I am

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