Sorry Written on a Napkin

Lyrics

Three a.m. at a counter in the rain
Coffee gone cold and the same old pain
Pulled a napkin from the metal case
Pen from the waitress, and I wrote your name
Forty years of pride in a single word
Hard as a stone, and I finally heard

I was wrong, I was proud
I was talking way too loud

So here's a sorry written on a napkin
Ink running thin where the coffee's been spilled
It ain't much, but it's every word I've got
It's the truest thing I've ever tried to build
Sorry written on a napkin
If you can't forgive, I'll understand
But I'm putting it in the mail by morning
With a long road and a shaking hand

I drove the night past the county line
Rehearsed a speech that never came out right
All the things I should have said that day
Got lost in the engine and the dark highway
Now the words come plain, not a clever one in sight
Just I miss you, and I should have stayed that night

I was wrong, I was proud
I was talking way too loud

So here's a sorry written on a napkin
Ink running thin where the coffee's been spilled
It ain't much, but it's every word I've got
It's the truest thing I've ever tried to build
Sorry written on a napkin
If you can't forgive, I'll understand
But I'm putting it in the mail by morning
With a long road and a shaking hand

Some bridges burn, some just wait
Quiet in the river, never too late
One small word on a paper square
Might be the only way to get me there

So here's a sorry written on a napkin
Ink running thin where the coffee's been spilled
It ain't much, but it's every word I've got
It's the truest thing I've ever tried to build
Sorry written on a napkin
If you can't forgive, I'll understand
But I'm putting it in the mail by morning
With a long road and a shaking hand

A long road and a shaking hand
Sorry, sorry, I'm coming home again