Remove Ads### Verse 1
Six-string hero on a back stage, that's me,
`C C`Playing my heart out, on this every night scene,
`C G`Chasing bigger* dreams where no one really cares,
`C C`Singin' my soul out 'til my fingers are bare.
Another night, same faces at the door,
`C C`Just a background tune amidst Broadway's buzz, you see.
### Verse 2
Mama calls every night, says "Come on home now, dear",
`C C`Worry lines on her face, I can hear it in her tone
`C G`Telling her the good parts, leaving out the lonely ones,
`C C`Chasing that music with every chord I own
`C G`*(Maybe one day…)* Telling her "I'm alright", I'm just working on my new song,
`C C`Hoping someday she'll see me make it through on my own.
### Chorus
`G C`These Nashville nights are wearing me thin,
`C C`But each song I'm writing will find a new *stage*.
`G C`With every chord and every song I write,
`C C`Just one more step through the honky-tonk lights.
`G C`I'll keep moving forward, I'm not staying tonight.
`G C`I'll keep moving forward, I'm not staying tonight.
### Verse 3
Tip jar’s light, and my car is limping on fumes,
`C C`Bar food and hope make my days on the stage.
`C G`Dreaming a big break, but it’s still hidin’ here,
`C C`*My throat* sings the same stories, but they don't seem to care,
`C G`Lost in their pool game, my singing's just ignored in here,
`C C`*Its hard to be heard over their voices*, you see.
### Fragmented Lead-In to Bridge
*"So here's to the dreamers, the... the lonely singers..."*
*"Keep strummin' that six-string... keep reachin'..."*
### Bridge
`Gm G`I've been down this road so many times before,
`C C`But I keep on playin’, always wantin’ more,
`Gm G`Someday soon they'll hear what I’ve got to say,
`C C`And that ol' six-string will pave my way,
Or will it just gather dus...
### Outro
*"dus..."*
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