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Gus Mahoney

I kept my word

Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio

the numbers

bpm
86
key
D major
energy
0.70
dance
0.94
valence
0.44
vocal at
9.1s
length
3:51
language
En

lyrics

You laughed and raised your flask that night at Joe’s

Said, “If I’m late tomorrow, you already know”

I wrote it on a paper sack with a pen I stole

Now I keep that paper folded in my shirt sleeve hole

It was two in the morning when you signed your name

On a napkin by the till, under a busted fan

Now every clock in this old truck says the same

I’m driving through the rain just to be your man

I kept my word

I kept my word

I kept my word

I kept my word

Your mama’s screen door groaned when I stepped inside

The casserole sat cold, the coffee black as tar

You said, “You really came,” and then you cried

I set that changed-time watch down on the scarred-up bar

It was two in the morning when you signed your name

On a napkin by the till, under a busted fan

Now every clock in this old truck says the same

I’m driving through the rain just to be your man

I kept my word

I kept my word

I kept my word

I kept my word

Now the jukebox hums low through the feed-store walls

And that old drunk promise still hangs in the air

You learned I wasn’t joking when the hammer falls

I was there in my work boots, waiting on your stare

I kept my word

I kept my word

I kept my word

I kept my word