Every Mile Mattered - Nichole Nordeman

Spread the map on the table, with the coffee stain

Put your finger on the places, show me where you’ve been

Is that California, where your teardrops dried?

You drew a circle around Georgia, can you tell me why?

I see shoulda beens, coulda beens

Written all over your face

Wrong turns and bridges burned

Things you wanna change

It’s history

You can’t rewrite it

You’re not meant to be trapped inside it

Every tear brought you here

Every sorrow gathered

Yeah, it’s history

And every mile mattered

Mattered, mattered, mattered

Mattered, mattered, mattered

Get the box off the top shelf, with the black and white

Snapshots of your old self, in a better light

Ghosts and regrets back again, I can see it in your eyes

Send them home, let 'em go

Don’t you think it’s time?

Yeah

It’s history

You can’t rewrite it

You’re not meant to be trapped inside it

Every tear brought you here

Every sorrow gathered

It’s history

And every mile mattered

And every road and every bend

Every bruise and bitter end

All you squandered, all you spent

It mattered, it mattered

Mercy always finds a way

To wrap your blisters up in grace

And every highway you’d erase

It mattered, it mattered

But it’s history

It don’t define you

You’re free to leave

It all behind you

Every tear brought you here

Every sorrow gathered

It’s history

And every mile mattered!

Every mile mattered!