My Kinda Party

There’s still black marks on that county road,
Where we drag raced our pickups, and mustangs,
And weathered all the sun and rain,
And to this day up on that overpass,
Even underneath the new paint, you can still see,
Ali will you marry me,
Take a ride, look around, and there ain’t no doubt

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It sure left its mark on us,
We sure left our mark on it,
We let the world know we were here,
With everything we did,
We laid a lot of memories down,
Like tattoos on this town.

There’s still a rope burn on that oak branch,
That hangs over the river, I still got the scar,
From swingin’ out a little too far,
There ain’t a corner of this hallowed ground,
That we ain’t laughed or cried on,
It’s where we loved, lived and learned real life stuff,
It’s everything we’re made of,

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Everywhere there we are,
It hits me right, in my heart,

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And we’ll always be hanging around
Like tattoos on this town
Like tattoos on this town

Yeah I’m chillin’ on a dirt road
Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones
Smoke rollin’ out the window
An ice cold beer sittin’ in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
Its got me reminiscing on them good times
I’m turnin’ off a real life drive and that’s right
I’m hittin’ easy street on mud tires

Back in the day Potts farm was the place to go
Load the truck up hit the dirt road,
Jump the barbed wire, spread the word,
Light the bonfire then call the girls
King in the can and the Marlboro man
Jack n’ Jim were a few good men,
Where you learned how to kiss and cuss and fight too,
Better watch out for the boys in blue
And all this small town he said, she said,
Ain’t it funny how rumors spread
Like I know somethin’ ya’ll don’t know, man that talk is getting old
You better mind your business man, watch your mouth,
Before I have to knock that loud mouth out
I’m tired of talkin’ man y’all ain’t listenin’
Them ol’ dirt roads, is what y’all missin’

Yeah I’m chillin’ on a dirt road
Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones
Smoke rollin’ out the window
An ice cold beer sittin’ in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
Its got me reminiscing on them good times
I’m turnin’ off a real life drive that’s right
I’m hittin’ easy street on mud tires

I sit back and think about them good old days
The way we were raised in our southern ways
And we like cornbread and biscuits
And if it’s broke ‘round here we fix it
I can take ya’ll where you need to go
Down to my hood back in them woods
We do it different round here that’s right
But we sure do it good and we do it all night
So if you really want to know how it feels
To get off the road with trucks and four wheels
Jump on in and man tell your friends
We’ll raise some hell where the black top ends

I’m chillin’ on a dirt road
Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones
Smoke rollin’ out the window
An ice cold beer sittin’ in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
Its got me reminiscing on them good times
I’m turnin’ off a real life drive and that’s right
I’m hittin’ easy street on mud tires
Let’s ride

Yeah I’m chillin’ on a dirt road
Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones
Smoke rollin’ out the window
An ice cold beer sittin’ in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
Its got me reminiscing on them good times
I’m turnin’ off a real life drive and that’s right
I’m hittin’ easy street on mud tires
Let’s ride

Not a whole lot going on, a small town Friday night
Revving up at a red light, on your mark get set go
Past a mom and pop restaurant
Same four trucks parked out front
I guess you gotta make your own fun
When you’re stuck in a place this slow

There’s only two means of salvation around here that seem to work
Whiskey or the Bible, a shot glass or revival

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When you don’t seem to run on either side of the fence
People act like you don’t make sense
These big town dreams that I’ve been chasing
Will never come true if I wind up staying
And I don’t want, to fall in, the same rut
That everybody here seems to be stuck in now
Why do I hang around
In this church pew or bar stool kind of town

I’m like that AM station, that never comes in right
Till you pass the city limit sign, that’s the only time it all gets clear
Well it’s crystal clear that I, just need to find
A place where there is no lines
And nothing like it is around here

Someplace where it don’t feel like this world revolves around
Whiskey or the Bible, a shot glass or revival

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Here it sometimes feels just like this world revolves around Whiskey or the Bible, a shot glass or revival

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Yeah I need to get out, of this church pew or bar stool kind of town
Yeah yeah

Well I can hear that rooster crowin’ down the road
I felt my eyes open up real slow and I looked around
Makin’ sure I hadn’t checked out
Cause there was an angel lying next to me
And I figured heaven’s where I must be
Oh but it was you, and baby what else could I do
In that bed I said a little prayer,
For one more day I’m still here

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It’s your world and I’m just in it
Ain’t no other way to spin it
Lucky me just being there when I get to hold you
I’m just here to love you girl
It’s your world and I’m just passing through

I dig in my heels and try to slow this down
I want my life to revolve around, everything you do
Oh but that’s all up to you
Everything good seems to go so fast
It’s kinda like one big party you crash you weren’t counting on
One day you’re here and gone
Baby all I wanna do is lay right here
And hope it all don’t disappear

CHORUS X2

I’m just here to love you girl
It’s your world and I’m just passing through

A couple guys in first class on a flight
From New York to Los Angeles
Kinda making small talk killin’ time
Flirting with the flight attendants
Thirty thousand feet above, could be Oklahoma

Just a bunch of square cornfields and wheat farms
Man, it all looks the same
Miles and miles of back roads and highways
Connecting little towns with funny names
Who’d want to live down there, in the middle of nowhere

They’ve never drove through Indiana
Met the man who plowed that earth
Planted that seed, busted his ass for you and me
Or caught a harvest moon in Kansas
They’d understand why God made
Those fly over states

I bet that mile long Santa Fe
Freight train engineer’s seen it all
Just like that flatbed cowboy
Stacking US Steel on a three day haul
Roads and rails under their feet
Yeah, that sounds like a first class seat

On the plains of Oklahoma
With a windshield sunset in your eyes
Like a watercolored painted sky
You’ll think heavens doors have opened
You’ll understand why God made
Those fly over states

Take a ride across the badlands
Feel that freedom on your face
Breathe in all that open space
Meet a girl from Amarillo
You’ll understand why God made
You might even wanna plant your stakes
In those fly over states

Have you ever been through Indiana
On the plains of Oklahoma
Take a ride

Worked all week,
Cleaned up clean cut and clean shaved,
I got the cover off the sixty-eight,
I fired it up and let them horses sing
A little pretty thing,
A little tanned legged Georgia dream,
She’s rockin’ them holey jeans,
And baby what you got goin' on Saturday

You know, word’s got it, there’s gonna be a party,
Outta town about half a mile,
Four wheel drives and big mud tires, Muscadine wine

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Oh baby you can find me, on the back of a jacked up tailgate,
Sittin’ round watchin’ all these pretty things,
Get down in that Georgia clay
And I’ll find peace, at the bottom of a real tall cold drink,
I’m chillin’ to some Skynyrd and some old Hank,
Let’s get this thing started, it’s my kind of party,

Well if you wanna drink,
Go baby just do your thing,
But give up your keys,
Hell why drive when you can stay with me
And then after while,
We’ll sneak away from the bonfire,
Walk by the moonlight and down to the riverside,
Gotcha sippin' on some moonshine,

Baby if you’re in the mood and
You can settle for a one night rodeo,
If you can be my tan legged Juliet
I’ll be your redneck Romeo

CHORUS X2

Haha, ya’ll ready for this, ya’ll go on and turn it on up, ha

Something ‘bout lighting up a Marlboro red
And that nicotine rushing to my head
And the taste of Southern Comfort on my lips
Tells me I ain’t ready to quit

There’s something ‘bout driving way too fast
Switching gears and hammerin’ on the gas
And the fact that they ain’t caught me yet
Tells me I ain’t ready to quit

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Don’t start thinking I’m gonna stop
Givin’ it all I got
And you think you’ve seen love
You ain’t seen nothing yet
How could I ever get tired
Of waking up by your side
And the taste of your sweet kiss
Tells me I ain’t ready to quit

There’s something ‘bout the way you say my name
That drives this ole country boy insane
So baby don’t stop loving me like this
Cause I ain’t ready to quit

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I walk a hardline winding road
Don’t really know where it’s gonna go
Seems like trouble’s my best friend
Soon as I get out I’m back in again it’s a wonder
I ain’t all alone

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Cause it ain’t easy
No it ain’t easy
It ain’t easy loving me

Don’t know why I do the things I do
Must be I love to light the fuse
Stand back and watch it crash and burn and turn into ash,
Just like it ain’t nothing, she ain’t something I could lose

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She’s the brick by brick that built this house,
Without her it would all fall down,
Somehow she finds the faith and the strength to believe,
Don’t know how she sticks around,

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She was raised up in Jersey
I said oh Lord have mercy
Never seen a one light town till she moved down here
She said I’m so bored out of my mind
Need a Starbucks and a Wi-Fi
Or a jet airliner to fly me anywhere
I said do you wanna take a drive in my truck
Don’t pay no mind to that twelve point buck laid across my hood

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You ever been to Rome Georgia
Picked peaches off the trees
Climbed a water tower in Paris Tennessee
Been to Florence Alabama
Drank Muscadine wine
Just give me a chance to change your mind
So before you go and fly away girl
Let me show you ‘round a country boy’s world

Somewhere between there on a dirt road
When I rolled down the window
She smelled wildflowers on that summer wind
Just a bite a homemade ice cream
And a glass of Mama’s sweet tea
This old hollers’ got a way of makin’ friends
She’d never seen a glowin’ field of fireflies
Or the twinkle of star in a southern sky and she fell in love

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We went down to Rome Georgia
Picked peaches off the trees
Climbed a water tower in Paris Tennessee
Went to Florence Alabama
Drank Muscadine wine
She gave me a chance and I made her mine
Said she’ll never fly away and she’s my girl
It’s ‘cause I showed her ‘round a country boy’s world

Now she’s ridin’ shotgun sayin’ baby lets run wild

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And go down to Rome Georgia
Pick peaches off the trees
Climb the water tower in Paris Tennessee
Go to Florence Alabama
Drink Muscadine wine
She gave me a chance and I made her mine
Says she’ll never fly away and she’s my girl
It’s ‘cause I showed her ‘round a country boy’s world

I’ve been here a bunch of times
It all starts with the same old lines,
It’s over, Baby it’s over
Nothing ‘bout it ever feels good
It knocks you down just like it should,
But it goes away, It always goes away
But something about this time feels different
Just like I’m in a fight I’m about to lose

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This might be the heartache that don’t stop hurtin'
That just keeps workin’ on me
That just keeps pickin’ on me
And these might be the tears that keep on fallin’
That won’t stop comin’ on down
They won’t stop rainin’ on down
Maybe it’s too early to know for certain
This might be the heartache that don’t stop hurtin’

Man I tried to kill the pain
By shootin’ whiskey through my brain
But it never works, it only makes it worse
So tonight I’m here again
Throwin’ punches in the wind
At some enemy, that I can’t even see
And I know I don’t want to let it have me
But every time it hits I feel the truth

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Tomorrow I’ll stand up again
And give it my best shot again
But tonight it sure feels like

These might be the tears that keep on fallin’
That won’t stop comin’ on down
They won’t stop rainin’ on down
And maybe its too early to know for certain
But this might be the heartache that don’t stop hurtin’

It just won’t stop hurting

Ohio was a riverbank,
A ten speed laying in the weeds,
Cannonball off an old rope swing,
Long, long summer days.

Tennessee was a guitar,
First big dream of mine,
If I made it yeah that’d be just fine,
I just wanted to play, I just wanted to play but,

Texas, was green eyes, crying goodbye,
Was a long drive, a heartache I’m,
Still trying to get through,
Texas was you.

Carolina was a black car,
A big white number three,
California was a yellow Jeep,
Cruising down Big Sur, haha

Georgia was a summer job,
And Bama was a Spring break,
I got memories all over the place,
But only one still hurts, only one still hurts like,

Texas, was green eyes, crying goodbye,
Was a long drive, a heartache I’m,
Still trying to get through,
Texas was you.

Texas, was my whole life, waving goodbye,
Thought I’d die, a heartache I’m,
Still trying to get through,

Texas was you,
It’ll always be you.

I really hate to let this moment go,
Touching your skin and your hair falling slow,
And when a goodbye kiss,
Feels like this,

CHORUS
Don’t you wanna stay here a little while,
Don’t you wanna hold each other tight,
Don’t you wanna fall asleep with me tonight.
Don’t you wanna stay here a little while,
We can make forever feel this way,
Don’t you wanna stay.

Let’s take it slow I don’t wanna move too fast,
I don’t wanna just make love
I wanna make love last,
And when you’re up this high, it’s a sad goodbye.

Don’t you wanna stay here a little while,
Don’t you wanna hold each other tight,
Don’t you wanna fall asleep with me tonight,
Don’t you wanna stay here a little while,
We can make forever feel this way,
Don’t you wanna stay hey yeah (Oh Yeah)

Oh you feel so perfect baby,
Yeah you feel so perfect baby
Don’t you wanna stay here a little while

Don’t you wanna stay here a little while,
Don’t you wanna hold each other tight,
Don’t you wanna fall asleep with me tonight,
Don’t you wanna stay here a little while,
We can make forever feel this way,
Don’t you wanna stay hey yeah,
Don’t you wanna stay

(Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah)

Let’s don’t say goodbye
I hate the way it sounds
So if you don’t mind
Let’s just say for now

CHORUS
See you when I see you
Another place some other time
If I ever get down your way
Or you’re ever up around mine
We’ll laugh about the old days
And catch up on the new
Yeah I’ll see you when I see you
And I hope it’s someday soon

God made this old world round
And maybe it’s that way
So that paths that we go down
Yeah will cross again someday
And someday I’ll…

CHORUS

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See you when I see you
Another place some other time
If I ever get down your way
If you’re ever up around mine – just stop by
We’ll laugh about the old days
And catch up on the new
Yeah I’ll see you when I see you
Till then my prayers are with you
And I hope it’s someday soon

I’ll see you when I see you

There wasn’t a stone I didn’t throw
When I wrecked it
My foolish words so cruel and cold
Were disconnected
Tell me why
When she cried
All I did was close my eyes

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But if she could see me now
If she could see me breaking down
Maybe she’d turn around
If she could see me now

Now the sunshine feels like rain
Trying to drown me
And the world feels out of place
All around me
So I wait
And I pray
That I’ll run into her someday

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There’s so many things I wish I could tell her show her
Just how bad I really need her miss her love her

CHORUS X2

If she could see me now

Ain’t no cloud up in my sky… I couldn’t worry if I tried
I got an open road just daring me
To pick you up and take you for a ride

Got a new shine on my car… the sun is tanning my left arm
And while I’m waiting on the red light
I’m burning up a little air guitar yeah

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Turn it up a little bit louder turn it up I love this song
C’mon girl the world is ours let’s do something right or wrong
Life is short and let’s go live it ain’t no time for wastin’ time
Days like these… they go by way too fast
Yeah days like these… you wanna make ‘em last

Rest your feet up on the dash leave your toe prints on the glass
Sing it like you mean it baby
Close your eyes and lay your head on back
What’d you say… what was that oh

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Speakers… laying in the truck bed no this day ain’t done yet
Till the sun goes down…

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Days like these… they go by way too fast
Yeah days like these… you wanna make ‘em last