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🎸 Intro:
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🎸 Verse:
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There's so much goin' on in this town
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To keep me busy, I've been runnin' around
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Up and down all these avenues
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Doin' everything but thinkin' 'bout you
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As long as I stay on 'em, I'm fine
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The city side of those city limit signs
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You don't really cross my mind
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But soon as I get out here on the outskirts
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I wish I was runnin' by your house first
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Somethin' 'bout a summer in the south sure
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Shines like gold down these old
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Round bail, river valley back roads
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Way back in the holler where the grass grows
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God almighty, baby, we were that close
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To ditchin' this town and settlin' down
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Out here on the outskirts
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If I'da had a lick of damn sense
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I'd be on the greener side of that fence
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Little starter house we've finally outgrown
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Twelve hundred feet we're 'bout to add on
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Smilin' out there watchin' them
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Big ol' yellow buckets 'bout to break ground
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While you're shootin' all my baby names down
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But soon as I get out here on the outskirts
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I wish I was runnin' by your house first
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Somethin' 'bout a summer in the south sure
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Shines like gold down these old
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Round bail, river valley back roads
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Way back in the holler where the grass grows
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God almighty, baby, we were that close
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To ditchin' this town and settlin' down
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Out here on the outskirts
🎸 Bridge:
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I'm over all these Saturday nights
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I miss the stars in your eyes
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We were gonna give up on the fast life
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Have a couple babies, raise 'em up right
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Take 'em to the river, get 'em baptized
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Back in our day, if I'da just stayed
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I wouldn't be livin' in this condo
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Hangin' out with Hailey from Toronto
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God almighty, baby, we were that close
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To ditchin' uptown, puttin' roots down
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Out here on the outskirts