That's Where I'm From

Back in the driveway

The end of the workday

And how fast that world disappears

A fresh lawn, a pine tree

A neighbor just like me

That's worked all his life to get here

A man climbs as high as he can

But his heart belongs where it began

I can see in my mind's eye

A shack on a hillside

And a mean billy-goat on a chain

Dad doin' battle

With dirt hard as gravel

And summers the crops never came

We'd shoot down a pheasant in flight

And sing songs about Jesus all night

And that's where I'm from

Where time passes slower

That's where I'm from

Where it's "Yes, ma'am" and "No, sir"

Can't tell I'm country

Just you look closer

It's deep in my blood

Two cars, a picket fence

That's where I've come

Dirt roads and double-wides

That's where I'm from

Night school on a fast track

And no cause to look back

That place put a scar on my soul

And I swore my young ones

Would never know hunger

And the good life is all they can know

Well, I've watched them grow, now I see

One thing separates them from me

And that's where I'm from

Where time passes slower

That's where I'm from

Where it's "Yes, ma'am" and "No, sir"

Can't tell I'm country

Just you look closer

It's deep in my blood

A white collar, a necktie

That's where I've come

Half-naked in the moonshine

That's where I'm from

If you've ever heard Hank Williams sing

Well, you know the whole blessed thing

'Cause that's where I'm from

Where time passes slower

That's where I'm from

Where it's "Yes, ma'am" and "No, sir"

Can't tell I'm country

Just you look closer

It's deep in my blood

A long way down a hard road

That's where I've come

Someplace I can't go home to

That's where I'm from