Yeah
I ain’t here to explain it
I’m here to own it

Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean
Night on my boots and smoke in my teeth
You can blame that road, but it walks like me
Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean

Sun came hard through the windshield crack,
lit every scar I was dragging back
No more soft blame in a motel sink,
no more drowning truth in a double drink

I got red dirt dried on the side door frame,
old heat dead but I know that name
I don’t wash guilt with a polished lie,
I just let it ride with the morning sky

Kick came in like a spine reset,
low-end talk and a jawline set
I was all ash, now I’m all nerve,
ain’t a damn thing here I didn’t earn

Short breath, chin up
that’s enough
I spent too long making exits art,
now I let the road see every part

No halo left, no excuse dressed right
Just a hard white line and a clear-eyed night
You can call me wrong, but don’t call me weak
I know exactly what I keep

Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean
Night on my boots and smoke in my teeth
You can blame that road, but it walks like me
Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean

Blacktop alibi, no borrowed grace
Steel in my chest and dust on my face
I quit letting regret do the talking for me
Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean

Rearview full of the could-have-beens,
but I don’t live bent where the hurt has been
Blue sky cut through the cabin haze,
made a hard man look at the mess he made

Then I laughed once, low and rough,
like the truth finally said enough
I ain’t proud proud, I ain’t pure pure,
I’m just done making my damage blur

Slide note bent with a mean little grin,
sub rolled deep like a second skin
If I burned a bridge, then I know that glow,
if I left a mark, then I let that show

Long road, dry mouth
head out
I got one life and a full tank stare,
so I carry the weight like I put it there

No halo left, no excuse dressed right
Just a hard white line and a clear-eyed night
You can call me wrong, but don’t call me weak
I know exactly what I keep

Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean
Night on my boots and smoke in my teeth
You can blame that road, but it walks like me
Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean

Blacktop alibi, no borrowed grace
Steel in my chest and dust on my face
I quit letting regret do the talking for me
Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean

Maybe I was built for the leaving
Maybe I was born to roam
But that don’t mean I hide in motion
or blame the dark for what I own

One line
one name
one look in the glass
I quit asking forgiveness
from a future built to last

If the road’s got a voice, it learned mine first
and I’m done acting shocked by the things I’m worth

Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean
Night on my boots and smoke in my teeth
You can blame that road, but it walks like me
Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean

Blacktop alibi, no borrowed grace
Steel in my chest and dust on my face
If I did that dirt, then it lives with me
Blacktop alibi, I wear it clean

I ain’t here to explain it
I’m here to own it
yeah
I wear it clean