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Better Life by wilks

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Better Life

Dark Southern Blues-Country

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I spent my twenties staring down the highway, Looking past the town where I was born.
Swore there was a better life waiting, Somewhere past these fields of corn.
Every sunrise was a stepping stone, Every paycheck was another mile.
Kept telling myself just a little longer, Never stopped to stay awhile.
I was chasing a better life, Running so hard I outran mine.
Always looking over the next hill, Never seeing what was right behind.
Now I trade all those dreams I carried, For one more Friday night.
Laughing around a campfire, Back when everything felt right.
Tommy called and said we're fishing, I said man I got things to do.
He ain't here now to ask me twice, Cancer took him at 42.
Mama's rocking chair sits empty, Daddy's tools still hang in the shed.
Spent years trying to build a future, While the people I loved slipped ahead.
I was chasing a better life, Running so hard I outran mine.
Always looking over the next hill, Never seeing what was right behind.
Now I trade all those dreams I carried, For one more Friday night.
Laughing around a campfire, Back when everything felt right.
Funny how a man gets older, And the answers come too late.
Happiness wasn't in the distance, It was sitting by my gate.
It was cold beer on a tailgate, Kids playing in the yard.
A buddy's joke that made no sense, And a sky full of stars.
Now I still got dreams worth chasing, But I don't worship them no more.
Tomorrow's just a promise maybe, Today's what's standing at my door.
But when the fire's burning low tonight, And my old friends stop on by,
I ain't thinking about where I'm headed, I'm thankful that I'm alive.
I found a better life, It was in somewhere far away.
It was hidden in the ordinary, That I nearly threw away.
It's a campfire and no stories, It's the ones that stay beside me.
Turns out the better life I wanted, Was the life I already had to see.
The years keep rolling like a river, And none of us know how much time.
So pull up a chair and stay a while, Don't spend your whole life waiting on a better life.
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