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A couple weeks ago, I went back to my hometown
I thought I'd just kick some rocks and see if Ma was still around
She found a boyfriend after daddy died last June
He is name is Lawrence and he sells insurance
I ain't seen him since the funeral.
Pulled up to the house, the shutters were all closed
I guess they went down south, cause Lawrence he don't like the cold
I saw my old Cherokee rusting in the weeds
Do you remember that night on 41 when you jumped the tracks with me?

CHORUS
Say things change faster than you know
Say things change, don't you hate to watch, hate to watch them go?

Woke up to the sirens, blaring in the morning light
Going to find some poor soul who'd lost his luck last night
Never used to hear the highway from our land
But the state changed the route and wrote it off as the 'Progress of Man'

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Went up to the Quik-Pick, there's no coffee at the house
The clerk had a toothless grin and her hair was falling out
You know she talked real fast, but she was not mean
She said back in 1998, she was the homecoming queen

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from American Highways [Digital Download], released April 19, 2015

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