00:00There's a little white church past the county line
00:05Where the road gets narrow and the signs get hard to find
00:10My truck was running on empty and so was my heart
00:17I had been driving for three days trying to outrun the dark
00:22I pulled beside an old wooden building with a cross above the door
00:28A hand-painted sign said, come on in, you don't have to know the land
00:35He didn't ask my story, he didn't ask my name
00:40He just poured me some coffee and said, son, you're not too far away
00:46He was the preacher at mile 42, standing where the lonely highway's been
00:52Yeah, the preacher at mile 42, changed the road I thought I knew
00:59He told me about a winter when the river took his home
01:04How he lost almost everything and learned he wasn't alone
01:10He said, I used to think that faith, now I know it means you keep on walking
01:16Outside the evening settled, across the fields of gold and every word he's something I had known
01:24Pointed toward the highway and said, that road goes far
01:28But don't confuse the distant horizon with knowing where you are
01:34He was the preacher at mile 42, standing where the lonely highway you stand
01:40Yeah, the preacher at mile 42, changed the road I thought I knew
02:10I asked him why he stayed there on a road nobody knew
02:16He smiled, then he opened up his Bible to a page one thing with time
02:21Maybe you were meant to find this sign
02:23Now I think about mile 42, when the night feels longer
02:28And I don't know where to start, I wrote preacher and the coffee in his hand
02:33He taught me that the smallest 42, sometimes take the night he said
02:40Yeah, yeah, the preacher at mile 42, showed me what believing means
02:47Never rode, maybe lonely, but I was never walking it alone
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