Lily Talmers - Middle of America lyrics
[Lily Talmers - Middle of America lyrics]
You can catch me gliding down
The highways of my youth
There goes the hospital they tell
Me I was born in
There goes the grocery, the pharmacy
The high school parking lot
Behind the wheel, you’d sigh and say
"This town ain’t nothing"
By the fourth day of July
The weather’s always far too warm but still
The only day that I could play with fire
And I often got my sister burned
Said it was by mistake
I knew that mama wouldn’t take me for a liar
Is there anybody listening to me?
From the middle of America
You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost
Lost like those new shoes you left my dear
You know how much those damn things cost us?
There is always that one girl who says
That she’s too sad to sleep
And she reminds me of what
Daddy would’ve told her
That nothing is as good or bad
As they will make it seem
I hear they feed that line
To people at the border
Is there anybody listening to me?
From the middle of America
You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost
Lost like Daddy’s pension fund my God
You know how much that’s gonna cost us
It rained so much last lonely spring
It nearly drowned the earth and if it had
I would’ve built an ark of maple
I would’ve proudly let the skyway guide
The highways of my youth
I would’ve welcomed all the world
If I were able
Is there anybody listening to me?
From the middle of America
You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost
Lost like Lady Liberty
Who wouldn’t care how much it
All would cost us
I hear someone knocking
It was just the mailman
The highways of my youth
There goes the hospital they tell
Me I was born in
There goes the grocery, the pharmacy
The high school parking lot
Behind the wheel, you’d sigh and say
"This town ain’t nothing"
By the fourth day of July
The weather’s always far too warm but still
The only day that I could play with fire
And I often got my sister burned
Said it was by mistake
I knew that mama wouldn’t take me for a liar
Is there anybody listening to me?
From the middle of America
You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost
Lost like those new shoes you left my dear
You know how much those damn things cost us?
There is always that one girl who says
That she’s too sad to sleep
And she reminds me of what
Daddy would’ve told her
That nothing is as good or bad
As they will make it seem
I hear they feed that line
To people at the border
Is there anybody listening to me?
From the middle of America
You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost
Lost like Daddy’s pension fund my God
You know how much that’s gonna cost us
It rained so much last lonely spring
It nearly drowned the earth and if it had
I would’ve built an ark of maple
I would’ve proudly let the skyway guide
The highways of my youth
I would’ve welcomed all the world
If I were able
Is there anybody listening to me?
From the middle of America
You scream out to the ocean, it gets lost
Lost like Lady Liberty
Who wouldn’t care how much it
All would cost us
I hear someone knocking
It was just the mailman