I Am A Town lyrics
Song information
Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter Album: The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
Lyrics
(Mary chapin carpenter)
I'm a town in carolina, I'm a detour on a ride For a phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five I am texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind
I am peaches in september, and corn from a roadside stall I'm the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl I'm the pines behind the graveyard, and the cool beneath their shade, where the Boys have left their beer cans I am weeds between the graves
My porches sag and lean with old black men and children Their sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them I am a town
I am a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain I'm a baptist like my daddy, and jesus knows my name I am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age; I am not your destination I am clinging to my ways I am a town
I'm a town in carolina, I am billboards in the fields I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels I am pabst blue ribbon, american, and "southern serves the south" I am tucked behind the jaycees sign, on the rural route I am a town I am a town I am a town Southbound
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