Songwriters: Carver, Lisa; Bush, Kristian; Nettles, Jennifer;Grew up on a tired road  Learned to smile even when I was fallin' down  Daddy had a hard hand and Mama always had hope  And me and my sister couldn't wait to get out    I fell in love out of college  Good man for the bad year  Visions of sugarplums and boxes of roses  All my girlfriends cried and I was out of here    Oh, everybody's dreamin' big  Oh, everybody's just gettin' by  That's how it goes in everyday America  A little town and a great big light    Joey stares at a trophy  Took us all away to stay back in '85  Shining moment and a dusty reminder  He never felt so scared, he never felt so alive    We found his toys in the backyard  Daddy's boys, yeah, you know how they like to fight  When they sleep, he swears they're angels  And he wouldn't trade a day for all those Friday nights    Oh, everybody's dreamin' big  Oh, everybody's just gettin' by  That's how it goes in everyday America  A little town and a great big light    We can laugh, we can cry  We're all just lookin' for the reasons why  In a place so dark can we see the light  Either way it will be alright    Oh, everybody's dreamin' big  Oh, everybody's just gettin' by  That's how it goes in everyday America  A little town and a great big light    Oh, everybody's dreamin' big  Oh, but everybody's just gettin' by  That's how it goes in everyday America  A little town and a great big light  A little town and a great big light  A little town and a great big light    I don't [Incomprehensible]      © EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC.; DIRKPIT MUSIC;    these lyrics are last corrected by PrincessC