[00:13.21]Every day I drive to work across Flint River bridge[00:19.51]A hundred yards from the spot where me and grandpa fished[00:24.75][00:25.63]There's a piece of his old fruit stand on the side of Sawmill Road[00:31.24][00:31.93]He'd be there peelin' peaches if it was twenty years ago[00:36.07][00:40.25]And what I wouldn't give[00:44.86]To ride around in that old truck with him[00:51.35]If heaven wasn't so far away[00:54.60]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day[00:58.16]Introduce them to their grandpa[01:00.90]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks[01:04.33]I'd find my long lost cousin John[01:07.39]The one we left back in Vietnam[01:10.26]Show him a picture of his daughter now[01:13.51]She's a doctor and he'd be proud[01:16.88]Then tell him we'd be back in a couple of days[01:22.30]In the rear view mirror we'd all watch 'em wave[01:29.48]Yeah' and losing them wouldn't be so hard to take[01:35.78]If heaven wasn't so far away[01:37.97]I'd hug all three of those girls we lost from the class of '99[01:51.55]And I'd find my old bird dog Bo and take him huntin' one more time[01:58.19]I'd ask Hank why he took those pills back in '53[02:04.49]And Janis to sing the second verse of "Me and Bobby McGee"[02:10.79]Sit on a cloud and visit for a while[02:16.78]It'd do me good just to see them smile[02:22.15][02:23.39]If heaven wasn't so far away[02:26.64]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day[02:30.20]Introduce them to their grandpa[02:32.26]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks[02:36.50]I'd find my long lost cousin John[02:39.18]The one we left back in Vietnam[02:42.55]Show him a picture of his daughter now[02:45.55]She's a doctor and he'd be proud[02:48.79]Then tell him we'd be back in a couple of days[02:54.03][02:54.97]In the rear view mirror we'd all watch 'em wave[03:00.15][03:01.27]Yeah' and losing them wouldn't be so hard to take[03:07.39]If heaven wasn't so far[03:11.13]If heaven wasn't so far[03:14.31]If heaven wasn't so far away[03:19.06][03:22.11]So far away[03:27.11][03:28.35]So far away