[Verse 1] You can catch me gliding down the highways of my youth There goes the hospital they tell me I was born in There goes the grocery, the pharmacy, the high school parking lot Behind the wheel, you'd sigh and say, “This town ain't nothing”
[Verse 2] By the fourth day of July, the weather's always far too warm But still, the only day that I could play with fire And I often got my sister burned, said it was by mistake I knew that mama wouldn't take me for a liar
[Chorus] Is there anybody listening to me? From the middle of America You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost Lost like those new shoes you left My dear, you know how much those damn things cost us?
[Verse 3] There is always that one girl who says that she's too sad to sleep And she reminds me of what Daddy would've told her That nothing is as good or bad as they will make it seem I hear they feed that line to people at the border
[Chorus] Is there anybody listening to me? From the middle of America You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost Lost like Daddy's pension fund My God, you know how much that's gonna cost us
[Bridge] It rained so much last lonely spring, it nearly drowned the earth And if it had, I would've built an ark of maple I would've proudly let the skyway guide the highways of my youth I would've welcomed all the world if I were able
[Chorus] Is there anybody listening to me? From the middle of America You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost Lost like Lady Liberty, who wouldn't care how much it all would cost us
[Outro] I hear someone knocking It was just the mailmanTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
