I Am A Town lyrics Lyrics

song lyrics I Am A Town lyrics I m a town in Carolina, I m a detour on a ride For a phone call and a soda, I m a blur from the driver s side I m the last gas for an hour, if you re going 25 I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind I am peaches in September and corn from a roadside stall I m the language of the natives, I m a cadence and a drawl I m the pines behind the graveyard and the cool beneath their shade Where the boys have left their beer cans, I am weeds between the graves My porches sag and lean with old black men and children My sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them I am a town I m a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain I m a Baptist like my daddy, Jesus knows my name I am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age I am not your destination, I am clinging to my ways I am a town I m a town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields I m an old truck up on cinderblocks, missing all my wheels I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South" I am tucked behind a Jaycees sign on the rural route I am a town I am a town I am a town Southbound song lyrics