You Know It’S Coming

From the moment a man paints his guest room pink
You can't help but to think
About the reason I'm cleaning this gun
Tonight sitting here on the front porch swing
Waiting on a shined up Chevy emblem 
To show up in my drive way
I've been dreading this for sixteen years
Three months and a couple of days

Even though you know it's coming like a freight train 
Humming from a mile away
You think you'll be ready 
But life's lead foot leaning on the clutch and off the brakes
'Til what's down the line ain't down the line no more
That's how time does it
You just crack a beer 'cause someday's here
And dang if you can't do nothin'
Even though you know it's comin'

You figure the man that taught you how to fish
Is made of steel and bricks
It's just strangers and a few good buddies 
Grandpa's that wind up sick
And then one day you're wearing all black 
Crushed behind a Cadillac 

Even though you know it's coming like a freight train 
Humming from a mile away
You think you'll be ready 
But life's lead foot leaning on the clutch and off the brakes
'Til what's down the line ain't down the line no more
That's how time does it
You just crack a beer 'cause someday's here
And dang if you can't do nothin'
Even though you know it's comin'

As sure as pawpaw's pass on
And baby girls grow up
Can't even think about the day
What the preachers gonna say
The rice, the tie, the tux

Even though you know it's coming like a freight train 
Humming from a mile away
You think you'll be ready 
Life's lead foot leaning on the clutch and off the brakes
'Til what's down the line ain't down the line no more
That's how time does it
You just crack a beer 'cause someday's here
And dang if you can't do nothin'
Even though you know it's comin'
Yeah, even though you know it's comin', mm