Album: Up on the Ridge
Album Release Date: June 8, 2010
Label: Capital Records Nashville
Producer: Jon Randall Stewart
Track 5: “Draw Me a Map”
Single Release Date: August 23, 2010
My Thoughts/Interpretation/Insights: “Draw Me a Map” is the fifth track on the album. This song was also the second (and final) single released from this album. This is a nice, smooth song that features Alison Krauss on background vocals. The narrator sings of trying to mend a fractured relationship. He wants to work things out with a girl, but is so lost that he doesn’t even know where to begin to apologize and to steer the ship back on course. He is reaching out to her to tell him what to do to make it better and save their relationship.
This song speaks from the heart and is worth the listen.
Let me know what you think of this one. Leave me a comment!
Listen to the song and follow along with the lyrics below! I have also included the official music video and a live version. Enjoy!
Draw Me a Map
Written by Dierks Bentley & Jon Randall Stewart
Staring deep into your eyes
Searching for answers to questions I can’t find
If I took for granted that I held your heart
I’d beg forgiveness but I don’t know where to start
So, draw me a map that leads me back to you
I don’t know where to go, please tell me what to do
Help me find the road you’re on
I just need directions home
Draw me a map that leads me back to you
I’ve never been so at a loss
I’m at a canyon I can’t get around or cross
So baby come down here, lay by my side
And tell me love’s not lost across the great divide
Draw me a map that leads me back to you
I don’t know where to go, please tell me what to do
Help me find the road you’re on
I just need directions home
Draw me a map that leads me back to you
You’re my destiny and destination
Understand my desperation, you
The only place I wanna be
So get us back to you and me
Draw me a map that leads me back to you
I don’t know where to go, please tell me what to do
Help me find the road you’re on
I just need directions home
Draw me a map that leads me back to you
Tracks of the Desert Son 
One of my top 5 Dierks songs! I’ll never understand how it never even made it to top 30! Ugh! Also the melody is very similar to Settle For A Slowdown and he’s confused the 2 in VIP acoustic sets before .
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It is too bad that this one didn’t do better on the charts. Such a nice song. I noticed that too about Settle for a Slowdown. That’s funny that he has confused the two songs. He should do an intentional medley sometime!
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