What Happens in a Small Town

Album: Fire & Brimstone (2018)
Charted: 53
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  • I can't go for a ride to clear my head
    'Cause everything I pass puts you back in it
    Yeah we're done, movin' on
    But you can't be too far gone

    'Cause what happens in a small town stays in a small town
    Every back road, we've ever gone down
    Friday night bleachers, Sunday pews
    Ain't a county line mile without a memory of you
    Every whisper, every room, I walk in
    Every time the bartender fills it up again
    Everybody knows why I'm here, and you ain't around
    'Cause what happens in a small town, stays in a small town

    Oh we said this goodbye was the last
    I guess I could leave, I could run from the past
    And from us and from you

    But this is where I belong, this is my home too

    What happens in a small town stays in a small town
    Every back road, we've ever gone down
    Friday night bleachers, Sunday pews
    Ain't a county line mile without a memory of you
    Every whisper, every room, I walk in
    Every time the bartender fills it up again
    Everybody knows why I'm here, and you ain't around
    'Cause what happens in a small town, stays in a small town

    Yeah, I'm still here, yeah
    And every time I see that little white Jeep
    Yeah, that hand-me-down Ford pullin' down your street
    I wonder if somebody's in my seat
    If you're movin' on or you're stuck like me
    'Cause what happens in a small town, stays in a small town
    Oh yeah

    What happens in a small town stays in a small town
    Every back road, we've ever gone down
    Friday night bleachers, Sunday pews
    Ain't a county line mile without a memory of you
    Every whisper, every room, I walk in
    Every time the bartender fills it up again
    Everybody knows why I'm here and you ain't around
    (You ain't around)
    'Cause what happens in a small town, stays in a small town

    It stays in a small town
    It stays in a small town
    And I'm still here
    (Yeah, what happens in a small town)
    I'm still here
    (Stays in a small town)
    I'm still here
    Yeah I'm still here
    I'm still here Writer/s: Brantley Keith Gilbert, Brock Berryhill, Josh Dunne, Rhett Akins
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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