Michelle Shocked

(Poly Gram Songs, Inc)





Memories of East Texas and those pine-green rolling hills

Covered in the springtime with golden daffodils

Rowing on Sandy lake come April, harvesting hay in June

Sitting by the road watching wellfires burn by an old October moon

I learn to drive on those East Texas red clay backroads

And I mean to tell you my friend they weren't no easy roads

You had to watch out for all the curves down by Kelsey Creek

And detour through the Lindsay's pasture when the waters ran too deep



Memories of East Texas and of Gilmer, county seat of Upshur

Looking back and asking myself ''What the hell did you let

them break your spirit for?''

Their lives ran in circles so small, they thought they'd seen it all

And they couldn't make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean

I learn to drive on those East Texas red clay backroads

And I mean to tell you my friend they weren't no easy roads

You had to watch out for all the curves down by Kelsey Creek

And detour through the Lindsay's pasture when the waters ran too deep





But those memories of East Texas and those pine-green rolling hills

Covered in the springtime with wild daffodils

Sitting in those Piney woods, playing my guitar

Thinking back on the roads I'd come, thinking I had not come that far

I learn to drive on those East Texas red clay backroads

And I mean to tell you my friend they weren't no easy roads

You had to watch out for all the curves down by Kelsey Creek

And detour through the Lindsay's pasture when the waters ran too deep