The official video for "A Cross on a Gravel Road" by The Okay Lakes, off the album "Redshift."

VIDEO CREDITS

Directed by Steven Anderson & Louis Holland

Cinematography by Louis Holland

Edited by Louis Holland

SONG CREDITS

Written, arranged, performed & produced by Jordan Keller

Drums & Percussion by Ryan Birkett

Background Vocals by Makena Hartlin

Engineered by James Scott

Recorded at Populist Studios in Wheaton, IL

Additional Engineering by Alex Dempsey

Additional Recording at Halo Studios in Nashville, TN

Mixed by Grant Cornish

Mastered by James Scott

LYRICS

I said, “Elizabeth, I know

You can’t wait to get out of here

But I bet you’ll look back when you’re leaving”

We were the lone lights on the road

Drifting over county lines

A bottle at our feet

She said, “I know this place too well

To lose myself

And I just wanna lose myself again”

And “we could die tonight

But there’s thousands yet ahead and I...

I can’t spend ‘em here”

And I said,

“If you end up wrecking all alone

So far from your name you can’t be found

And stranded like a cross on a gravel road

Who’d be the one to bring you flowers?

Who’d be the one to bring you flowers?”

I said, “Elizabeth, there is a grace

In dying in the very place

You were born”

In the dashboard glow

I swore I saw her eyes roll

Or stow away a tear

I said, “I know you way too well

You’ll never really lose yourself

I bet we never get to lose ourselves again”

She said “your love is setting slow

Like concrete around my bones

I can’t end up here”

But if she ends up wrecking when she goes

So far from the home where she was bound

Stuck, standing like a cross on a gravel road

I will be the one to bring her flowers

I will be the one to bring her flowers

I will be the one to bring her flowers