Stranger in the Only Country

Verse 1

Rust on the water tower

Dust in the parking lot glow

Same church spire I knew as a kid

Now I don't know what it knows

Painted lines fading to gravel

Strip mall with half the lights out

Drove through the town where I learned to drive

Can't find my way back now

Chorus

This town I loved

Is letting go of me

This flag I waved

Is something I don't recognize

And I'm still here

Just quieter

Just quieter

Verse 2

Gas station fluorescence

On a face I used to be

Cornfields stretching past the billboard

That reads JESUS SAVES and free

Highway humming under tires

Memphis to the Great Lakes

Every exit looks the same now

Like a half-remembered face

Chorus

This town I loved

Is letting go of me

This flag I waved

Is something I don't recognize

And I'm still here

Just quieter

Just quieter

Bridge

Abandoned mall with the fountain dry

Old gospel station gone digital

I'm a stranger in the only country

I've ever known

I've ever known

Chorus

This town I loved

Is letting go of me

This flag I waved

Is something I don't recognize

And I'm still here

Just quieter

Just quieter