Secret

There's an old train track

goes back by the old mill

Where them boys slip away every day

to the whiskey still

And they sell shine by the bottle

for a five every Saturday

Behind Old Red's Tavern

but you didn't hear that from me

'Cause we all act like we don't know

Where daddy got his money for a fishing pole

A Zebco don't come cheap in this day and time

And we all turn the other way

'Cause we've got bills that we can't pay

It's a small town and we know how it goes

It's just another secret that everybody knows

Old man Rainey spends his days at the local store

He pays for little but sometimes leaves with more

But he's always got a story

about his boy shipped overseas

And he hasn't been the same since

so we let him be

And we all act like we don't know

That he ain't got nowhere to go

'Cause he's too proud to beg for a handout

And we all turn the other way

'Cause there ain't that much left to say

It's a small town and we know how it goes

It's just another secret that everybody knows

Well, this simple life ain't as easy as it sounds

'Cause we've all got things that we don't talk about

Like Jenny had a baby last spring

now she's all alone

'Cause old man Rainey's boy

he ain't coming home

Now she drinks from a bottle

she got behind Old Red's

'Cause she can't get the sight

of him leaving out of her head

And we all act like we don't know

When she comes into Sunday school

With a smile and baby boy in her arms

And we all turn the other way

Say "bless their hearts" and we just pray

It's a small town and we know how it goes

It's just another secret that everybody knows

It's just another secret that everybody knows