Closer to Texas - Matt Kjeldsen

I take two steps forward and don't look back I buried my soul just to cover my tracks So I'm like a dirty cop with blood on my hands And I know it won't be long I'm smoking cigarettes in the laundry mat I'm wonderin what's next and where it's at I got a future that's full with dirty cash Oh I know it won't be long Have you ever done something so wrong? Won't you come a little bit closer to me? Come a little bit closer They've got a thousand bucks bounty on my head The power line is down and they want us dead I gotta know right now, baby are you in? Cause that door don't look too strong Did you move all alone? Won't you come a little bit closer to me? Come a little bit closer now Just a little bit closer Oh, a little bit close to me Everyone pities someone else And eyes are red, they don't hold sense But she keeps dancing in company So come a little bit closer to me Come on, baby Come a little bit closer now Just a little bit close baby Come a little bit closer to me

504 black girl carried me In her womb to the land of the peach Her birthing pains brought me low But she held me high on Peachtree road Got my mother's eyes and my father's nose Also got brother's hand-me-down clothes We had no green but the love was strong It was all we'd need to get us along, get us along Left ATL for the Texas way We drove 20 East in my daddy's '88 I learned in school I didn't measure up I fell short of what true blackness was Mama taught the righteous way I set down that path but went astray Paid for love on a crescent moon In that Oklahoma motel room Kyree taught me chords to strum They got me through when I felt numb 504 black girl 504 black girl carried me 504 black girl, black girl 504 black girl carried me 504 black girl carried me 504 black girl carried me

Looking back, who would've guessed? Gotta say I'm pretty blessed I was thinking just the other day Could've gone either way I'm amazed at what God does 'Cause for a while there I was Just a lone star in the sky 'Til you walked into my life Without you, girl, no telling where I'd be Through a million twists and turns And a thousand lessons learned It's been one long road from Texas to Tennessee Every step, every storm You were there like a brand-new dawn Showing me your love and grace Even on my darkest days I'm a better man for sure Than the man I was before Just a lone star in the sky 'Til you walked into my life Without you, girl, no telling where I'd be Through a million twists and turns And a thousand lessons learned It's been one long road from Texas to Tennessee Through a million twists and turns And a thousand lessons learned It's been one long road from Texas to Tennessee Been one hell of a road from Texas to Tennessee