Up all night, pen to paper   Four page letter, should've known better   Than to think you would read it   Guess I wanted you to know   I didn't want to let you go   Been dreadin' this day since the day you told me   That director called, said he liked your pictures   And he wanted to meet you   I died the day I said to you   You gotta do whatcha gotta do      CHORUS   I can't stop you   You're a wheel already rollin'   I can't keep you   You're a bird on a wing, you're about to fly   I can't hold you   You were never mine to hold   Guess I gotta let you go, let you go, let you go   Heaven knows I don't wanna let you go   But I can't stop you      Rubber to road, pedal to metal   Couldn't care less, halfway to memphis   When the blue lights slowed me down   State trooper said ninety-one   Who the hell you chasin' son   I told him all about your angel face   Your green-eyed dreams, your head-strong ways   He took my license and ran my plates   I counted eighty-four trucks go by   And on that Shoulder I began to cry      CHORUS      It finally hit me you were gone   Just outside Jackson on the drive back home      CHORUS