I Am a Town (PCM Stereo)

Artist：mary chapin carpenter

Songs Title：i am a town

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 twenty-five

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

Their sleep is filled with dreams I never can fulfill them

I am a town

I am a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain

I'm a Baptist like my daddy and 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 cinder blocks missing all my wheels

I am Pabst Blue Ribbon American and ＂Southern Serves the South＂

I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign on the rural route

I am a town

I am a town

I am a town

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