Southern Comfort Zone

Album: Wheelhouse (2012)
Charted: 54
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  • When your wheelhouse is the land of cotton
    The first time you leave it can be strange, it can be shocking

    Not everybody drives a truck, not everybody drinks sweet tea
    Not everybody owns a gun, wears a ball cap boots and jeans
    Not everybody goes to church or watches every NASCAR race
    Not everybody knows the words to Ring Of Fire or Amazing Grace

    Oh, Dixie Land
    I hope you understand
    When I miss my Tennessee home
    And I've been away, way too long
    And I can't see this world unless I go
    Outside my Southern Comfort zone

    I have walked the streets of Rome, I have been to foreign lands
    I know what it's like to talk and have nobody understand
    I have seen the Eiffel Tower lit up on a Paris night
    I have kissed a West Coast girl underneath the Northern Lights
    I know what it's like to be (I know what it's like)
    The only one like me (the only one like me)
    To take a good hard look around and be in the minority

    And I miss my Tennessee home
    But I can see the ways that I've grown
    And I can't see this world unless I go
    Outside my Southern Comfort zone

    I miss your biscuits and your gravy
    Fireflies dancing in the night
    You have fed me, you have saved me
    Billy Graham and Martha White

    But I've since become a drifter
    And I just can't wait to pack
    'Cause I know the road I leave on
    It will always bring me back

    (I wish I was in Dixie away)

    And I miss my Tennessee home
    And I've been away, way too long
    But I can't see this world unless I go
    Outside my Southern Comfort zone

    Look away, look away

    (I wish I was in Dixie away, look away)
    (I wish I was in the land of cotton)
    (What are we having for supper? Well you an aunt B's having fried chicken)
    (You live in the power of that truth, because some of us are on a journey)
    (And you won't be able to stay here, you'll be called to far away places)
    (Maybe even a foreign land)
    (We're not sure where you're listening, but it's a beautiful night)
    (In Nashville, Tennessee and we're delighted to have you tuned in)
    (Live and die in Dixie, in Dixie) Writer/s: Brad Douglas Paisley, Charles Christopher Du Bois, John Kelley Lovelace
    Publisher: Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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