Where I'm From

I don't think it's a secret that I love most country music but sometimes certain songs I love more at any given moment.  I'll go through obsessive phases where I love a particular song and will play it all the time, like my recent choice of "Knee Deep" by Zac Brown Band (in my attempt to feel like I'm at the beach and not 6 hours away in a landlocked city).  But, I don't think it's always because it applies to me or speaks to me or anything but sometimes I just love the lyrics.  Other times I love the actual music.  "Where I'm From" is on my list for favorite lyrics right now and "Easy" by Rascal Flatts featuring Natasha Beddingfield I loooove right now too!  It doesn't hurt that I love Rascal Flatts (and am still secretly sad that I missed the Atlanta concert last week) but I also have loved Natasha's voice for a few years now...not always her music style, but definitely her voice.  Well, those are my thoughts as I'm sitting here listening to country music.  It really does make me happy and it's the only thing that got me through the ceiling painting and wall priming this week! 
"Where I'm From" -Jason Michael Carroll

On a three hour flight from Memphis to LA
I was silently celebrating my first class upgrade
Laughing at my jeans and my boots
Beside those high dollar shoes and Armani suits
When the gentleman next to me said the drinks up here are free
So if you'd like the first one can be on me
He said I'm headin back from business in New York and Rome
Tell me son, Where do you call home

I said I'm from the front pew of a wooden white church
The courthouse clock it still don't work
Where a man's word means everything
Where moms and dads were high school flings
Gave their children grandmothers maiden name
Yes it may not sound like much
But its where I'm from

So we drank that round and then another
There wasn't a topic in this world we did not cover
He said I headed out west when I was barely 19
Just a kid chasing my dreams
I said I'm flying out here to pick up my big brother
He's been fighting the cancer they discovered
But he called last night and said I think this is the end
So come take me home to my family and my friends
Where the quarterback dates the homecoming queen
The truck's a ford and the tractor's green
And Amazing Grace is what we sing
Well there's a county fair every fall
And your friends are there no matter when you call
Yeah It may not sound like much but it's
Where I'm from

And as we stood to claim the bags we checked
He said I'll pray for your brother and did I mention that
Italian suits haven't always been my style
See I was quarterback of my high school team
We took state back in '63
And my wife, she's still my homecoming queen

Cause I'm from the front pew of a wooden white church
A courthouse clock that still don't work
Where a man's word means everything
Where moms and dads were high school flings
Gave their children grandmothers maiden name
Yes it may not sound like much
I said it may not sound like much but it's where I'm from
it's where I'm from
Where I'm from

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound......