DESCRIPTION:
"Second Gear" is off Matt Harlan's forthcoming album 'Raven Hotel.' Available 6/24/14. Pre-order it today via iTunes (smarturl.it/mattharlan-rh).

LYRICS:
Drop it down another gear
The roads are slick this time of year
That curve will come up quick and send us flying
You know I've been around
Traveled up this way and down
No rush out here is worth the chance of dying

These tracks are flat and worn so let them guide you
The scars will leave a compass on your skin
You'll find a higher place that you can climb to
Just leave a trail to show them where you've been

See those smooth spots on the wheel
That's experience you feel
White knuckles gripping down and holding tight
I stayed on the road for days
Truck-stops and KOAs
That dashboard picture got me through each night

The edges rounded down, the image faded
Two children and a wife all hand-in-hand
My place behind the lens, insinuated
By a shadow and the footsteps in the sand

Don't it all seem to pass
Like a spring storm on the glass
If you weren't there you'd swear
It never rained a drop
But outside looking in
Is where I'm left to start again
You grew up 'fore I knew it,
Now I wish that you'd just stop

And drop it down another gear
Til the dark clouds disappear
Just think of how your mother'd end up crying
You know I've been around
Traveled up this way and down
No rush out here is worth the chance of dying

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