Lyrics Country Kid.lrc The Avett Brothers
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[00:00.45]I was a country kid through and through
[00:03.79]I got my bare feet bit by a wreckin’ crew
[00:06.95]Of fire ants on a mission for total domination of the font yard
[00:13.84]Three years old on a ramshackle farm
[00:17.00]Winnie-the-Pooh in the crook of my arm
[00:20.23]Brother and sister not meaning no harm, pickin’ on me
[00:26.01]I was a country kid with a strong foundation
[00:29.87]Gettin’ myself a whole second education in the back of the bus
[00:34.13]Kids kissin’ and cussin’ all around me
[00:39.40]One more pickup in the trailer park
[00:42.61]Hand to mouth, livin’ll break a young heart
[00:45.87]Beautiful girl with a hard, hard look in her eyes
[00:51.85]Then I grew up and hit the city
[00:54.84]But the skyscrapers never get me
[00:58.06]I fly above ’em all the time, straight through cloud nine
[01:01.33]Flowing fast like the Mississippi
[01:04.44]I was a country kid shootin’ hoops in the dirt
[01:07.85]Hidin’ smokes in the pocket of a homemade shirt
[01:11.08]Runnin’ laps in the yard until my little legs hurt and then goin’ again
[01:17.68]Six feet of air off a plywood ramp
[01:20.71]Dad’s welding machine parked where I would land
[01:23.82]All I could taste was blood, all I could feel were the rocks
[01:27.00]In the palms of my hands
[01:30.07]I was a country kid throwin’ parties in the woods
[01:33.88]Draggin’ my friends out of their neighborhoods
[01:37.03]Jealous of their cable TV and their girls next door
[01:43.27]Slippin’ off into the dark of night
[01:46.47]The shape of a body traced by moonlight
[01:49.45]Interrupted by some other kid wantin’ to fight over her
[01:55.89]Then I grew up and hit the city
[01:58.85]But the skyscrapers never get me
[02:02.06]I fly above ’em all the time, straight through cloud nine
[02:05.32]Flowing fast like the Mississippi
[02:08.41]Flowing fast like the Mississippi
[02:11.25]Woo!
[02:37.21]I was a country kid
[02:39.48]Now I’m grown, with a job and a wife and a son of my own
[02:43.89]Navigatin’ time zones, inspectin’ the bones of the second half
[02:50.62]Talkin’ to God a little more often
[02:53.85]Less requests and more sayin’, “Thank you”
[02:56.87]For every single town and every single acre in between
[03:02.99]’Cause I grew up and hit the city
[03:06.09]But that metropolis’ll never get me
[03:09.26]I fly above it all the time, straight through cloud nine
[03:12.49]Flowing fast like the Mississippi
[03:15.81]Yeah, I grew up and hit the city
[03:18.88]But the skyscrapers never get me
[03:22.07]I fly above ’em all the time, straight through cloud nine
[03:25.30]Flowing fast like the MississippiYear of Release: 2024