Song Description

Disagreement, break up then making up.

Lyrics

Verse
All those harsh words said at that noisy bar
Still echo in my mind
What a fool I was to let you leave this time
But by the time I got to your sister's house
She told me you just left
to follow a dream that's been in your heart for a while

Chorus
But I missed you by a mile
Then I missed that special smile
How I missed those loving eyes
I missed your warm goodbyes
You were headed for L.A.

Verse
And so I put the hammer down
along the white line I drove on
Trying to make the county line before dawn
But the old man at the filling station
said you just stopped in
That you must be westward bound about a mile

Chorus
Again I missed you by a mile
Then I missed that special smile
How I missed those loving eyes
I missed your warm goodbyes
You were headed for L.A.

Bridge
Now I've got to close the distance that's grown between us even though this road can be so unforgiving
I'll put my foot to the floor
To make your back door Before it's too late

Verse
I've long passed the county line, now I'm headed for the coast
But I feel like I've lost the one I needed most
Then in my headlights' path, a shadow appears by a lifted hood
In the far right lane and through the rising steam
A face is slowly revealed

Chorus
Then I see your special smile
I see your loving eyes
I know that I was wrong to talk to you that way
Now we're headed for L.A.