WHERE I'M FROM

welcome to the fields of soybeans and cotton
where skinny truck drivers beat their fat wives rotten
proud of the hole they were born and grew up in
got drunk passed out had some chicken threw up in
see all my friends settle for and get stuck in
got bored got broke found a job drove a truck in
waited for breaks but just ran out of luck in
did shit work just to make shit buck in
it's just killin' a six-pack by the highway
drivin' in a 50 zone doin' 98
car wash scenesters bad moustache faces
defective young dolls with the pork rind graces
some run themselves ragged 'til they turn into wrecks
some on the boat spendin' all their government checks
some in the past cause there's too much unease
most feed the fire of the walmart disease

where i'm from
(who cares man)

welcome to the land of the glamor and glitz
where it's rats not the ritz if you don't make hits
with indie impostors with millionaire sponsors
got as much substance as fools and white rastas
where the sunshine is sweet but you can't really taste it
from the office windows mall jobs or other such places
car food rent phone life alone catch a stare
incidental meetings often lead to dead air
amongst the bent knees and the fauxhawk disease
here i am again representing just me
beat down so hard i don't swagger i stagger
walkin' past your house lookin' mean and haggard
and on the tvs the happy monkees
dance around like bee gees in the late seventies
west side brain freeze and they aim to please
slicked back phrases straight out the nurseries

i'm from small town charm strip mall city cars
i'm from midwest mexico smashing guitars
i'm from flow like fluid southern cheap beer bars
i'm from desert night outlines half asleep stars
i'm from lake drive city scapes broken tape scars
i'm from jump joy great escapes wash off the tar
i'm from knowin' where i'm goin' never gettin' what i'm knowin'
stop flowin' start flowin' two ways at once goin'

street names man nobody cares
neighborhood names never been there
where i'm from man it ain't a big deal
ain't a big deal