I went driving through my old hometown

It was Thursday the bright sun on the horizon

I was surprised to see no one had burned it down

It seemed so peaceful and warm



Floods of memories came back to me

All the things we got away with when we were younger

And I felt kind of like a refugee

Like a scattered pile of leaves in a storm



Peaceful memory like lights on a Christmas tree

Every hometown should be peaceful and warm

Every father mother sister brother friend of the family

Peaceful and warm



Somehow now and then didn't seem to blend

'Till a farmer plowing his field waved hello

Another working man doing the best he can

I hope he is peaceful and warm



Peaceful memory plows in the green field sea

Every hometown should be peaceful and warm

Every father mother sister brother friend of the family

Peaceful and warm



On the Kansas banks of the Muddy Mo'

I threw rocks in the river and dreamed of running away

In a wind of change only a father knows

In a world so hectic so cold

I guess my old hometown's kinda dead and gone

Miss the sign on I-29 and you blow right by

But it's a place I can go remember where I come from

It will help me keep me peaceful and warm



Peaceful memory the only thing that's free

Take them and try to be peaceful and warm

Every father mother sister brother friend of the family

Peaceful peaceful and warm