From the recording Everything Else Was Noise
Tailgate Prayer
“Tailgate Prayer” is a love song celebrating two people who found each other in a hard world and built something gentle together.
This song lives in the little everyday pieces of a shared life: boots by the door, keys in the bowl, coffee cups, porch light, backroad rides, laughter, and quiet Sunday mornings. It is about the kind of love that does not need grand speeches to prove itself because it shows up in the ordinary moments, over and over again.
At the heart of the song is the line, “I never knew home could look like you.” That is what this song is really about — finding someone who turns the world from a place you were surviving into a place where you finally belong.
“Tailgate Prayer” is gratitude wrapped in a love song. It is about two people holding on to each other, letting the world talk, letting the dogs bark, and still choosing the life they found together.
— Lane Alan Dumser
Lyrics
Your boots by the door
My keys in the bowl
Two old coffee cups
And one shared road
You laugh at my hat
I steal your last fry
We got a small town habit
Of saying yes to this life
And I never knew
Home could look like you
With your hand in mine
The whole world feels true
You and me, baby
You and me, baby
That’s my kind of love
That’s my kind of love
Two hearts, one porch
One sky above
You and me, baby
You and me, baby
That’s my kind of love
Your shirt on the chair
My dog at your feet
Sunday morning sunlight
On the vinyl screen
We don’t need much
Just a backroad ride
And your quiet grin
On the passenger side
I used to drift
Like dust in the lane
Then you came along
And called me by name
You and me, baby
You and me, baby
That’s my kind of love
That’s my kind of love
Two hearts, one porch
One sky above
You and me, baby
You and me, baby
That’s my kind of love
Let them talk
Let the dogs bark
We got a fire
Burnin’ in the dark
If the map goes out
If the rain rolls in
I’ll still find my way
Back to you again
You and me, baby
You and me, baby
That’s my kind of love
That’s my kind of love
Two hearts, one porch
One sky above
You and me, baby
You and me, baby
That’s my kind of love