Lord let me live out in the mountains
Don't you let that city shine on me
All those lonely people with their great big words
Can only hear the ghosts of revelry

Lord won't you baptize me in moonshine
Help me wash away my memories
Just the sweet sweet sound of this whole world spinning round
Lay my rocking bones among the trees

A hand-me-down baby from the negligent '80s
Not sure how even one of us survived
Smoking in the park, get me home while it's still dark
Bicycle wheels are racing the sunrise

I've never missed the blacktop left behind me
Streelights turned to yonder mountain pine
Like a holy word's upon a page, like a bird out of a cage
I was born the day that I declined

Lord let me live out in the city
I don't want to hear those crickets sing
Give me sweet Aretha and a wild and crazy night
Howling at the moon just ain't my thing

Highrises shining in the starlight
Everything alive and shimmering
You can keep your backroads, 'cause every beating heart grows
Ever-loving city life is king

Stolen from a dream left in your pocket
Cross my fingers, close my eyes and dance
Bursting at the seams of a glamorous machine
Cobblestones and streetlights holding hands

I swear to God man that's when it hit me
No one here was born to live alone
Liberty and love carry woater on their own
Ring that bell, your boy is coming home

Lord let me live out in the mountains
Don't you let that city shine on me
All those lonely people with their great big words
Can only hear the ghosts of revelry

Lord won't you baptize me in moonshine
Help me wash away my memories
Just the sweet sweet sound of this whole world spinning round
Lay my rocking bones among the trees

Just the sweet sweet sound of this whole world spinning round
Lay my rocking bones among the trees