We've come a long way since Wilmore And every other thing we've done Become so much more than The banker's daughter and the preacher's son And it's a long day at the sugar mill When I'm rising before the dawn We're gathering it all up And soon we'll be gone And the scriptures we knew so well We traded for the open road And the hissing of the summer lawns The promise of our new home Crossing the muddy wide Missouri In our yellow Japanese car Yuri's panting in the backseat How did we ever get this far In the mountains of Colorado In the record-breaking heat Yuri's song plays on the radio Willie's singing us to sleep And the scriptures we knew so well We traded for the open road And the hissing of the summer lawns The promise of our new home They need more men on the oil field And I'm hoping I'll fit the bill So we can get out of this tent and settle down Cause I'm worried we never will And we're headed back down seventy-five Wondering what was all of this for And as the sun sets on the Gulf coast Could we have asked for more And the trees are getting more familiar But it won't be in defeat Cause along the way we realized We are all that we need And the scriptures we knew so well We traded for the open road And the hissing of the summer lawns The promise of our new home Of our new home