I made my plans to leave you far behind   To put you in my past and get you off my mind   So I took your memory on a midnight ride   Down a dark and lonely backroad, and left it there to die      But look what followed me home   I thought I was alone   But your memory   Keeps comin' back to me      I thought I left it behind   Had you off my mind   But I see I was wrong, wrong, wrong   Look what followed me home      Well, I walked down to the river at the break of dawn   With a picture of you, darlin', up underneath my arm   I said the heartache's over, today is your last day   I thanked that muddy river as it carried you away      Look what followed me home   I thought I was alone   But your memory   Keeps comin' back to me      I thought I left it behind   Had you off my mind   But I see I was wrong,wrong, wrong   Look what followed me home      Yeah, I see I was wrong, wrong, wrong   Look what followed me home