You feel frozen But you've been chosen You lay there drunken Your dreams seem sunken Your world's a small one And you break the rules You're one big fish In a bowl of fools Tired of serving up your town Tired of wearing that crown Tired of sliding up and down Tired of being you Your work's no future Your girl don't suit you Your bar won't serve you You have no nerve to Make a break From this sad old school Across the lake Lies a place that's cool Run, you got a place to go Run, you got a boat to row Run, you got a face to show Run while you can The high street's sleeping As Friday's creeping The shops are open But their minds are closed How's it going? But it's not their concern They're talking stuff about you That you never learn Smile, you're on your own Smile, 'cause you've outgrown Smile, you lost your home Smile to yourself

To the folks who need the money but won't sell the family forty Keep telling that suit and tie no To all them hidden county liners, little mom and pop diners Keep telling big money where to go Remember God only made so much real estate Tell the bank I'm gon' take it to the grave Let's keep the red dirt roads red dirt Keep the little white church, keep keeping God first Keep dragging that plow, keep the blue on your collar Keep the sweat on your dollar, keep the sins in the water And your roots in thе ground Keep standing tall, the hell in your naw Herе's to all y'all keepin' small towns small To the ones who rocking rust on a box-bodied truck Rev it up, keep that rubber burned down To the ones coming home to your homecoming queen Keep making that girl's daddy proud To all of y'all fighting for that flag We gon' hold it down 'til ya get back And keep the red dirt roads red dirt Keep the little white church, keep keeping God first Keep dragging that plow, keep the blue on your collar Keep the sweat on your dollar, keep the sins in the water And your roots in the ground Keep standing tall, the hell in your naw Here's to all y'all keepin' small towns small To the gone but not forgotten God, tell 'em we got 'em And we know they're looking down on this town So we gon' keep them red dirt roads red dirt Keep the little white church, keep keeping God first Keep dragging that plow, keep the blue on your collar Keep the sweat on your dollar, keep the sins in the water And your roots in the ground Keep standing tall, the hell in your naw Here's to all y'all keepin' small towns small We keepin' small towns small

Here we stand Somewhere in between this moment and the end Will we bend? Or will we open up and take this whole thing in? Everybody else is smiling And their smiles don't fade And you don't even wonder Why you just don't think that way Maybe you and me got lost somewhere We can't move or we can't stay here Well, maybe we've just had enough Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love You and me tried everything But still that mockingbird won't sing Well man, this life seems hard enough Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love Take my hand And I will lead you through the broken promise land Yes I can, oh yes I can I can be there when you need it I'll give it all 'til you can't feel it anymore I don't wanna love you now If you'll just leave someday I don't wanna turn around If you'll just walk away Maybe you and me got lost somewhere We can't move or we can't stay here Well, maybe we've just had enough Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love You and me tried everything But still that mockingbird won't sing Well man, this life seems hard enough Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love Maybe you and me got lost somewhere We can't move or we can't stay here Well, maybe we've just had enough Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love You and me tried everything But still that mockingbird won't sing Well man, this life seems hard enough Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love Maybe we ain't meant for this love Maybe we ain't meant for this love

I was born on a bad sign Saw the best in the worst times Had a run with some good lines All fear and alibi Had a laugh for a good while And all my tears were crocodile I came down hard a million miles away And here I am So let it fall around our feet I'm with you and you're with me And you're the only one I think about these days We may win or we may lose All I know is that I'd choose it all again And how I feel could never fade Life is funny that way That way I was raised on a fault line Thought the faults were all mine I drank so hard I almost died Most of the time But what the hell do I know When I just go where the wind blows All this time and all I know Is I don't know so much So let it fall around our feet I'm with you and you're with me And you're the only one I think about these days We may win or we may lose All I know is that I'd choose it all again And how I feel could never fade And now I never thought I was enough I never thought I pulled my weight I painted the lines until I was drawn But I'm not sure that it looks like me I was born on a bad sign Saw the best in the worst times Singing all of the wrong lines all my life So let it fall around our feet I'm with you and you're with me And you're the only one I think about these days We may win or we may lose All I know is that I'd choose it all again And how I feel could never fade Life is funny that way That way