Track 2 of the EP Left Open, Left Running · 2026
Take the Back Road, Windows Down
“A former teacher's last day: keys in a drawer, tie on a hook, windows down. It sounds the way freedom felt.”
folk-pop · freedom folk · bright folk-pop · 3:46
Lyrics
The office keys are in a drawer The tie is on a hook I put the old car in the road And didn't even look There's wheat fields turning amber There's swallows on the wire The late-day sun is pouring down Like someone lit a fire Take the back road, windows down Late summer's got the whole wide town Nowhere to be and all day long I'll hum along to the radio song Take the back road, windows down I stop to buy a bag of plums From a boy beside a gate He says you look like you've got time I tell him, mate, I'm late for nothing A tractor waves, I wave right back The dust hangs in the gold I used to rush to get somewhere Now I'm happy to be slowed Take the back road, windows down Late summer's got the whole wide town Nowhere to be and all day long I'll hum along to the radio song Take the back road, windows down Forty years of Monday mornings Now the road is mine Every bend is a brand new thing Every hill is a sign Take the back road, windows down Late summer's got the whole wide town Nowhere to be and all day long I'll hum along to the radio song Take the back road, windows down Windows down Windows down