I Am A Town - Mary Chapin Carpenter

I'm a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride

For aphone call and a soda,

I'm a blur from the driver's side

I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five

I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind

I am peaches in September,

and corn from a roadside stall

I'm the language of the natives,

I'm a cadence and a drawl

I'm the pines behind the graveyard,

and the cool beneath their shade,

where the boys have left their beer cans

I am weeds between the graves.

My porches sag and lean with

old black men and children

Their sleep is filled with dreams,

I never can fulfill them

I am a town.

I am a church beside the highway

where the ditches never drain

I'm a Baptist like my daddy, and Jesus knows my name

I am memory and stillness,

I am lonely in old age;

I am not your destination

I am clinging to my ways

I am a town.

I'm a town in Carolina,

I am billboards in the fields

I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks,

missing all my wheels

I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American

and "Southern Serves the South"

I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign,

on the rural route

I am a town

I am a town

I am a town

Southbound.

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