Dust Bowl Valley Lyrics

I'm going back

To the place I ran from

Palm trees, broken roads

Desert dust bowl sun

Where the bill man call you

Almost every week

Which bills to pay today

What's left in the fridge to eat

Where stars frame the night

Born out of dreams

Just close enough to give hope

But too far to reach

I left there

With that hope on fire

A back seat for a bed

In search for something brighter

Down in that dust bowl valley

With that dust bowl valley sun

I'm going back

To the place I ran from

Where the earth and the men

Have been hardened by a life in the sun

Like my old man

He's 63

Still swings a hammer

Still tougher than me

What about my mother

Well the last I heard

She was strung out on Demerol

And some of those neighbors

I miss my good friend

Look how far we've come

Both settling down

I guess we're worn out from the run

Down in that dust bowl valley

With that dust bowl valley sun

And I'm headed back

Got the radio on

They're still playing

Haggard's Working Man's Song

And I'm coming full circle

Trying to make my peace

With my past

And the ghosts that still haunt me

Remembering the good times

More than the bad

That dust bowl country

Heart worn land

I'm going back

To the place I ran from

Palm trees, broken roads

Desert dust bowl sun

Down in that dust bowl valley

With that dust bowl valley sun

Take me on back to

That dust bowl valley

Dust bowl valley sun