[00:00.00] 作词 : Mary Chapin Carpenter[00:01.00] 作曲 : Mary Chapin Carpenter[00:19.31]I'm a town in Carolina,[00:23.93]I'm a detour on a ride[00:28.37]For a phone call and a soda,[00:32.37]I'm a blur from the driver's side[00:37.56]I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five[00:46.68]I am Texaco and tobacco,[00:51.68]I am dust you leave behind[00:56.62]I am peaches in September,[01:01.24]and corn from a roadside stall[01:04.31][01:06.11]I'm the language of the natives,[01:08.55][01:10.68]I'm a cadence and a drawl boys have left their beer cans[01:19.45][01:20.13]I am ****s between the graves.[01:22.26][01:25.26]My porches sag and lean with old black men and children[01:32.76][01:35.69]Their sleep is filled with dreams,[01:38.26][01:53.76]I never can fulfill them I am a town.[02:01.01][02:12.88]I am a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain[02:22.07]I'm a Baptist like my daddy,[02:26.82]and Jesus knows my name[02:31.21]I am memory and stillness,[02:35.71]I am lonely in old age;[02:40.64]I am not your destination[02:44.96]I am clinging to my ways I am a town.[02:50.02][03:19.03]I'm a town in Carolina,[03:23.22]I am billboards in the fields[03:28.23]I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks,missing all my wheels[03:37.48]I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South"[03:47.35]I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign,[03:52.29]on the rural route I am a town[03:57.61][04:00.73]I am a town I am a town Southbound.