I Am A Town — текст песни (Carpenter Mary-Chapin)

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 25
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
My sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them
I am a town
I`m a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain
I`m a Baptist like my daddy, 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 cinderblocks, missing all my wheels
I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and Southern Serves the South
I am tucked behind a Jaycees sign on the rural route
I am a town
I am a town
I am a town
Southbound