Verse 1
There's a maple tree that's turning
Just outside my windowpane
And the morning light is learning
How to dance through gold again
I've been watching seasons change
From this old familiar chair
Wondering how the years arrange
Their patterns in the air
Chorus
Oh, autumn road
Where my footsteps gently fall
Each leaf has a memory I've known
Each breeze a distant call
The simplest truths are hardest told
On this autumn road
Verse 2
Coffee steam rises slow
Like the thoughts inside my mind
Some friends have come and some have gone
Left footprints deep behind
The wooden floor still creaks the same
In this house I've called my own
Some wounds have healed; some scars remain
In places only I have known
Chorus
Oh, autumn road!
Where my footsteps gently fall
Each leaf has a memory I've known
Each breeze a distant call
The simplest truths are hardest told
On this autumn road
Bridge
Time keeps rollin' like a river
Carrying what we can't hold
I'm just trying to be a good deliverer
Of the stories I've been told
Yes, I'm just trying to be a good deliverer
Of the love I've come to know
Verse 3
There's a picture on the mantle
Of a younger, different me
With eyes that hadn't handled
All they would come to see
But I wouldn't trade these lines
That time has gently drawn
For all the smoother designs
Of days long gone
Final Chorus
Oh, autumn road
Where my footsteps gently fall
Each leaf has a memory I've known
Each breeze a distant call
The simplest truths are hardest told
On this autumn road
Yes, the simplest truths are hardest told!
On this autumn road