Packed up his duffel bag Climbed up on that bus Left his hometown girl In a cloud of dust Every Sunday called her from a payphone Went out and did his thing Motels and guitar strings One month turned into two And when the tour was through The house was cold and empty when he got back home Yeah a hard rain washed out a gravel road If you treat somebody like that Well they won't be waitin' when you get back Cause time's got a way of changing everything you know And a heard rain washes out a gravel road It happened in a car With a boy she met She cried her eyes out When she took the test Gave her baby girl to a foster home Sixteen years went by And she changed her mind
She finally tracked her down And she took the drive But there's not much to say to someone you've never known And a hard rain washed out a gravel road If you treat somebody like that Well they won't be waitin' when you get back Cause time's got a way of changing everything you know And a hard rain washes out a gravel road She's trying to cross a bridge that's burned Two broken hearts, one lesson learned Don't leave your love out on some highway If you treat somebody like that Well they won't be waitin' when you get back Cause time's got a way of changing everything you know And a hard rain washes out a gravel road Oh a hard rain washes out a gravel road