That backward town in my rearview    Was gonna be my whole world    Till my factory job got shipped to Mexico    And a city boy stole my sweet girl.       I used to know everybody by name    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 my future    Ain't what it used to be       I thought like my dad and his daddy before    That I would die where I was born    Live in a small town dream in a big backyard    Raisin' babies and corn       Now here I am, one eye on the road    Tryin' to read the map on the dash    Nowhere close to making 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 my future    Ain't what it used to be       This ain't nothin' like what I    Had in mind for me    But then again my future    Ain't what it used to be       That backward town in my rearview    Was gonna be my whole world