Ain't What It Used To Be (Album Version)

That backward town in my rearview

Was gonna be my whole world

Till my factory job got shipped to Mexico

And a city boy stole my sweet girl

I used to know everybody by name

Everybody's moved away

Can't say that

I'm really wantin' to go

But I've run out of reasons to stay

This ain't nothin' like what

I had in mind for me

But then again my future

Ain't what it used to be

Well I thought like my dad and his daddy before

That I would die where

I was born

Live a small town dream in a big backyard

Raisin' babies and corn

Now here I am, one eye on the road

Tryin' to read a map on the dash

Nowhere close to making up my mind

With a fork in the road comin' fast

This ain't nothing like what

IHad in mind for me

Then again my future

Ain't what it used to be

This ain't nothing like what

IHad in mind for me

Then again my future

Ain't what it used to be

That backward town in my rearview

Was gonna be my whole world