I've never had a way with women   But the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could   And I've never found a way to say I love you   But if the chance came by oh I, I would   But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother   We don't like to make our passions other people's concern   And we walk in the world of safe people   And at night we walk into our houses and burn      Iowa oh ooo oh, Iowa oh ooooh ooo oh I Iowa      How I long to fall just a little bit   To dance out of the lines and stray from the light   But I fear that to fall in love with you   Is to fall from a great and gruesome height   So you know I asked a friend about it on a bad day   Her husband had just left her   She sat down on a chair he left behind, she said   "What is love ? Where did it get me ?   Whoever thought of love is no friend of mine"      Iowa oh ooo oh, Iowa oh ooooh ooo oh I Iowa      Once I had everything, I gave it up   For the shoulder of your driveway and the words I've never felt   And so for you I came this far across the tracks   Ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt, and I'd do it again   For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion   For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see   You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa   And you were not thinking of me      Iowa oh ooo oh, Iowa oh ooooh ooo oh I Iowa   Iowa oh ooo oh, Iowa oh ooooh ooo oh I Iowa