I made a trip back to my hometown last week For my grandparents' 50 year anniversary It was black leather wingtips and big bouffant hair Your typical
Some judge a man By the way he shakes a hand And if he looks a man in the eyes By the way he treats his tools The way he treats a fool And the things
Everybody in my senior class Got the hell out just as fast as they could go And pretty soon that Greyhound bus It only left a few of us to carry on It
Ran across a friend of mine Hadn't seen since eleventh grade Saw our name on the marquee sign And stopped in to hear us play He said, ?Man, it's been
An old guitar with brand new strings Your favorite faded pair of jeans That first apartment away from home A newborn sleeping all night long Seeing him
I was sitting on a bench with my ankle taped up Watching our team getting beat like a drum by a rival school They were giving high fives and acting cool
Have you ever popped a can And put a pinch between your cheek and gum? Run barefooted through the woods Come hunting with a Blue Tick and a gun? Patted
All my life i've been on the run never slowed down for anyone keeping my distance livin life in the fast lane in control callin' all the shots no one
Look at the two of you dancing that way Lost in the moment and each other's face So much in love, you're alone in this place Like there's nobody else
Get the motor running hot Second row, third disc I still remember that yellow sun dress Blond hair, blue eyes And every time I looked at her, my tongue
When the storm is raging And thunder rolls Deliver us from the ocean Save our souls (Gaelic chorus) A Thiarna dean trocaira (Lord have mercy) A Chriost
hear our hymn from the heartland. {***someone speaks words in the hear our prayer. begining but its not segnificate*} steer us through
But I've been waiting such a long time Now I'm reaching for your shore can't stay away no more. You're my heartland you' re my heartland You're my heartland
I'm a bold man, (yes you really get it) I'm a bold man, (do you really want it) cause this is home, in the heartland Last time in check, the sunrise
that fell As the moon began to rise Beneath the stars in each other's arms They were onto somethin' It ain't called Heartland for nothin' We're in Heartland Heartland, Heartland
Cross her off your short list My blood is a red winged bird The way will be lit by the bridges we burn, oh And come, tornado, carry my away from the croft
and beast. Red soil for the taking, Ruddy women for your brides. All good men of valourous heart, consider a new start, And sail today for the Heartland
to love And I turned 'round and hated it If I ever knew, I tried to tell Give of my heart but I never sell Supermarket of the soul Heartland truckstop