Right Where I Started - Part 1

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[Intro]
Just a dirt road boy
And a sky full of miles
Didn’t know where I’d land
Just knew I had to ride

[Verse 1]
We grew up poor on the edge of town
Tin roof singing when the rain came down
Mama praying at the kitchen light
Daddy working every Saturday night

Trouble waited at the county line
Fast cars, bad friends, cheap red wine
I was eighteen with a restless soul
And a bus heading somewhere I didn’t know

[Pre-Chorus]
So I traded that road
For a soldier’s name
Figured distance
Might change my fate

[Chorus]
I ran from the dust of that little town
Chasing a life I thought I’d found
Miles and years just slipping by
Under foreign stars and highway signs

I searched the world
Till my heart got tired
Looking for something I couldn’t find
Turns out love was waiting there
Right where I started

[Verse 2]
Army boots on a desert ground
Letters from home got passed around
Old bar jukeboxes overseas
Sounded like Tennessee to me

When the war was done and the dust had cleared
I drifted through another year
Different towns and different bars
Still carrying home inside my scars

[Chorus]
I ran from the dust of that little town
Chasing a life I thought I’d found
Miles and years just slipping by
Under foreign stars and highway signs

I searched the world
Till my heart got tired
Looking for something I couldn’t find
Turns out love was waiting there
Right where I started

[Bridge]
One fall night at the county fair
Saw her standing by the Ferris wheel there
Same brown eyes from years ago
Girl I left on that old dirt road

She smiled slow like time stood still
Like the whole wide world just lost its will

[Final Chorus]
I ran from the dust of that little town
Chasing a life I thought I’d found
Miles and years just slipping by
Under foreign stars and highway signs

I searched the world
Till my heart got tired
Looking for something I couldn’t find
Turns out love was waiting there
Right where I started

[Outro]
Just a dirt road boy
And a long road heart
Took my whole damn life
To find her at the start

Right where I started

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[Intro] Just a dirt road boy And a sky full of miles Didn’t know where I’d land Just knew I had to ride [Verse 1] We grew up poor on the edge of town Tin roof singing when the rain came down Mama praying at the kitchen light Daddy working every Saturday night Trouble waited at the county line Fast cars, bad friends, cheap red wine I was eighteen with a restless soul And a bus heading somewhere I didn’t know [Pre-Chorus] So I traded that road For a soldier’s name Figured distance Might change my fate [Chorus] I ran from the dust of that little town Chasing a life I thought I’d found Miles and years just slipping by Under foreign stars and highway signs I searched the world Till my heart got tired Looking for something I couldn’t find Turns out love was waiting there Right where I started [Verse 2] Army boots on a desert ground Letters from home got passed around Old bar jukeboxes overseas Sounded like Tennessee to me When the war was done and the dust had cleared I drifted through another year Different towns and different bars Still carrying home inside my scars [Chorus] I ran from the dust of that little town Chasing a life I thought I’d found Miles and years just slipping by Under foreign stars and highway signs I searched the world Till my heart got tired Looking for something I couldn’t find Turns out love was waiting there Right where I started [Bridge] One fall night at the county fair Saw her standing by the Ferris wheel there Same brown eyes from years ago Girl I left on that old dirt road She smiled slow like time stood still Like the whole wide world just lost its will [Final Chorus] I ran from the dust of that little town Chasing a life I thought I’d found Miles and years just slipping by Under foreign stars and highway signs I searched the world Till my heart got tired Looking for something I couldn’t find Turns out love was waiting there Right where I started [Outro] Just a dirt road boy And a long road heart Took my whole damn life To find her at the start Right where I started

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