Track 7 of the album Mile Marker Zero · 2016
Home Is a Zip Code I Can't Dial
“Motel number nine, ice machine humming, and home is a zip code I can't dial. I think a lot of drivers know that room.”
rock ballad · motel ballad · heartland rock · 3:22
Lyrics
Motel number nine on a Tuesday night Ice machine humming a low old tune I can name every crack in my mother's porch From a thousand miles and a hotel room The TV says it's raining back there I can almost smell the wet red clay Funny how the place that I couldn't leave fast enough Is the place that I can't get away Oh, home is a place I can't dial Home is a porch light a thousand miles I'd trade every town and every song For the sound of that screen door slam Home is a place I can't dial But it's calling me all the while Bought a postcard from a gas station rack Wrote three lines and I tore it in two How do you say I miss the way The kitchen smelled when the day was through Maybe I'll turn this old truck round Maybe I'll drive through the night Maybe the road that took me out Knows the way back to the light Oh, home is a place I can't dial Home is a porch light a thousand miles I'd trade every town and every song For the sound of that screen door slam Home is a place I can't dial But it's calling me all the while Screen door slam Calling me all the while