Get Away

A poem about leaving New York and moving to the country

Get Away

 

Refrain

I've dreamed of leaving this land for years

I could feel the country in me

Ever since I heard country in my ears

The rush of life in the North today

Makes me want to get away

 

Verse 1

Living in a big house up here ain’t all it’s cracked up to be

Life moves way too fast to enjoy simply

It seems like no one stops to smell the roses

The fruits of your labor are wasted

When there is no time to soak it in

 

Verse 2

Grand living comes with a price

You’re expected to be so much

But some people can’t deal with the grind

Of living up here in the north

 

Verse 3

I gotta go south of the Mason Dixon

Where everything slows down

And it seems so simple to live

Down in the land of Conway Twitty

And where the women just seem so pretty

 

Verse 4

Rubber on dirt seems oh so free

I wanna see my baby’s hair gettin messed up in the breeze

With some Zac Brown comin through the static

It puts me in some high spirits

 

Verse 5

This New York traffic is gettin under my skin

I gotta find some roads that are twistin

Nash FM has made me realize

That the south is callin my name