The Back Roads and the Back Row

Album: Cole Swindell (2014)
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  • Moon coming through the pines, cranking up a country song
    Heaven right by your side, and a Saturday night barely hanging on
    Sun shining through the stained glass, humming just as I am
    I'm praying that feeling would last, that feeling that saves you
    Makes you wanna raise your hands

    That's the way it was, and that's the way it is when you're growing
    Up in the mud and buck the way we did
    It got me where I am and where I'm gonna go
    We learned all about believing
    And everything we were ever gonna need to know
    Somewhere between the back roads and the back row

    I had my first taste of beer
    My first taste of a broken heart
    There were good times, there were tears
    But every red dirt memory left a mark
    Like the words written there in red
    Like the streets that are made of gold
    Where we always bowed our heads, where momma saved our seats
    And Jesus saved our souls

    That's the way it was, and that's the way it is when you're growing
    Up in the mud and buck the way we did
    It got me where I am and where I'm gonna go
    We learned all about believing
    And everything we were ever gonna need to know
    Somewhere between the back roads and the back row

    It got me where I am and where I'm gonna go
    We learned all about believing
    And everything we were ever gonna need to know
    Somewhere between the back roads and the back row
    Somewhere between the back roads and the back row
    Yeah, yeah
    Somewhere out there between the back roads and the back row Writer/s: Cole Swindell, Michael Anthony Carter, Tom C. Shapiro
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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