Southern Road

I sold all my dreams to buy all my hopes

And then I sold all my hopes just to buy my way back home

My way back home

My way back

Came from a real deep, long line of coal miners

Truck drivers, moonshiners

Don't take kind of no newcomers or no outsiders

Lightning riders, every vein in fiber

Pump gasoline, stay ready to fire

Raised by the chips, bikers, bikers

Dope boys, turd killers, all doing life

They taught me how to fight when I was eight or nine

Get jumped for my nights living on the east side

Paid every toll, sold every oath

Earned every stripe I was ever bestowed

Walked miles up and down this southern road

Sold a bunch of dreams to buy back my hopes

When they ask how we did it, tell them we ain't run

And we ain't go home 'til all the work is done

Sold my dreams just to buy all my hopes (just to buy all my hopes)

And then I sold my hope just to buy my way home (my way home)

And I planted my seeds and I sowed all my o's

Yeah, I paid my tolls, my tolls, my tolls

On that ol' southern road

On that ol' southern road

Yeah, after I leave the poetry

Sitting for people to marvel and criticize

Ain't no reason to apologize

I leave it behind, leave it to be the why

Maybe 'cause my daddy did the same to my mama now

I'm better left to prophesize

Slow American king, lay the ring on my Chevrolet bow tie

Snake skin and crocodile

Boots under my toes like I rode the swamp with the chicken pie

Adorn my feet with reptiles

Stay stepping on a serpent with the oil of a pink cloud

Baby blues and hues will make you think wild

Holdin' my breath up under the mainstream now

Only an iceberg looks this good underwater, baby

Up until I make a ship sink down

Slum beautiful, square body, it's cubicle packin' it bang bang

Like a marshal to those pink piles

Sold all our dreams just to buy all my hopes (just to buy all my hopes)