Circles Around This Town

I swear I don't know how I trusted

A Montero with the AC busted

A couple bad demos on a burned CD

Would take me all the way to Tennessee

I showed up to the new apartment

First month's, last month's, two deposits

Hadn't heard the sound of a door slam yet

Thank God I was an optimist

I drove circles around this town

Trying to write circles around this town

Trying to say something with meaning, something worth singing about

I've been kind and I've been ruthless

Yeah, I got here but the truth is

Thought when I hit it, it'd all look different

But I still got the pedal down

Driving circles around this town

So many times I thought about leaving

Got my ass kicked trying to compete with

Everybody else's ones that got away

Hung around long enough to catch a break

Couple hundred songs and the ones that finally worked

Was the one about a car and the one about a church

That I wrote

Driving circles around this town

Trying to write circles around this town

Trying to say something with meaning, something worth singing about

I've been kind and I've been ruthless

Yeah, I got here but the truth is

Thought when I hit it, it'd all look different

But I still got the pedal down

Driving circles around this town

Driving circles around this town

I drove circles around this town

Trying to write circles around this town

Trying to say something with meaning, something worth singing about

I've been kind and I've been ruthless

Yeah, I got here but the truth is

Thought when I hit it, it'd all look different

But I still got the pedal down

I still get lost, I still get found

Driving circles around this town

Oh, yeah