That backwood town in my rear view   Was gonna be my whole world   Till my factory job got shipped to Mexico   An' my farm boy chased a city girl      I used to know everybody by name   But everybody's moved away   Can't say that I'm really wantin' to go   But I've run out of reasons to stay      This ain't nothin' like   What I had in mind for me   But then again, the future   Ain't what it used to be      I thought like my mom and her momma before   That I would die where I was born   Live a small town dream in a big backyard   Raisin' babies an' corn      Now here I am, one I amu row   Tryin' the read the map on the dash   Nowhere close to makin' up my mind   With a fork in the road comin' fast      This ain't nothin' like   What I had in mind for me   But then again, the future   Ain't what it used to be      No, this ain't nothin' like   What I had in mind for me   But then again, the future now   Ain't what it used to be      That backwood town in my rear view   Was gonna be my whole world