Alan Jackson Songs - Long Hard Road Lyrics

Alan Jackson - Long Hard Road

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Album: The Bluegrass Album
Released: 2013

Long Hard Road Lyrics

It's a long, hard road I'm traveling on
Seems forever I've been gone
Yeah, it's a Long Hard Road I'm traveling on
Lord I need to find my way back home

I hear the voice my sweet momma called me
Telling me to change my ways
In my mind, I smell the dogwood blooming
Takes me back to yesterday

It's a long, hard road I'm traveling on
Seems forever I've been gone
Yeah, it's a long hard road I'm traveling on
Lord I need to find my way back home

I left behind the person that I once was
I changed for good and some for bad
I've wasted days and nights on love forgotten
I've traded happiness for sad

It's a long, hard road I'm traveling on
Seems forever I've been gone
Yeah, it's a long hard road I'm traveling on
Lord I need to find my way back home

I've felt the hurt of a broken heart inside me
I've felt the joy of love unchained
I've seen the rain wash away a mountain
Like tears have washed away my pain

It's a long, hard road I'm traveling on
Seems forever I've been gone
Yeah, it's a long hard road I'm traveling on
Lord I need to find my way back home

I've watched some loved ones dear to my heart dying
I've heard a newborn baby's cry
I've walked a path of glory and of darkness
I've felt the guilt of a senseless life

It's a long, hard road I'm traveling on
Seems forever I've been gone
Yeah, it's a long hard road I'm traveling on
Lord I need to find my way back home

Drank to forget and I've drank to remember
And I've drank for love and I've drank for hate
I've danced alone with a full moon up above me
Lighting the way to heaven's gate

It's a long, hard road I'm traveling on
Seems forever I've been gone
Yeah, it's a long hard road I'm traveling on
Lord I need to find my way back home

I've felt the love of Jesus shining on me
I've felt the devil's wicked ways
Prayed for forgiveness, prayed for redemption
Prayed just to make it through the day

It's a long, hard road I'm traveling on
Seems forever I've been gone
Yeah, it's a long hard road I'm traveling on
Lord I need to find my way back home

Writer/s: Jackson, Alan Eugene
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Long Hard Road

This is the opening track of The Bluegrass Album, the nineteenth studio album and first Bluegrass LP recorded by Alan Jackson. The cut paints the picture of a man who has been away from home for a long time and hears the voice of his mother calling him back home. "That was a song about thinking about all the years since I left Georgia," Jackson told NPR. "I think that when your parents are helping you along, you always remember things that they say and do as you're growing up. Even when you're as old as I am you can still think of things."

Jackson added that despite being concerned, his parents supported his move to Nashville to pursue his dream. "When I decided to leave and go to Nashville that was just the craziest thing anybody had ever heard of in (his hometown) Newnan, Georgia," Jackson said. "[For] someone to just pack up and go way off like that, it was like traveling to Japan or something for us. And I think they were very concerned about it, but they also have always been supportive. Daddy always told me, 'Go up ahead and try it, and if it doesn't work, you can always come home.'"