04 1968 Lebanon, TN 5:36

I'm seven years old and we live in town,
on Pennsylvania Avenue.
My Mom and Dad and my brothers and me,
I even got my own bedroom

Summers here and we're done with school,
I just finished the 2nd grade
The weathers so nice that you don't need shoes,
I'm gonna play in the sun all day

Saturday Morning after cartoons,
we're headed for the Horn Springs pool
when I get in that water I ain't coming out,
I'm gonna stay until my lips turn blue

Then we'll stop at the Snow White Drive-in,
for a corndog and some Ice Cream
see who can eat theirs fastest,
and laugh when get brain freeze

We're just tow-head kids in cut-off jeans,
running wide open with skinned up knees
I know what Heaven means to me,
1968 Lebanon Tennessee

Gonna spend a week with Grandma,
Gonna stay out on the farm
Gonna catch a bunch of fish with a cane pole,
Gonna play out in the barn

When it starts to get dark I'm gonna run thru the field,
catch a jar full of lightning bugs
then eat some chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream,
and get some of Grandmas hugs

Pap says it smells like rain,
as he looks off in the sky
we're all shelling peas on the front porch,
just watching the cars go by

later that night under a tin roof,
listening to the rain
It's singing me to sleep like a lullaby
with help from the Nashville train-

We're just tow-head kids in cut-off jeans,
running wide open with skinned up knees
I know what Heaven means to me,
1968 in Lebanon Tennessee

Now its 2021 and times flying by,
and I'm starting to feel old
Pap and Grandma have both passed on,
and the farm has long been sold

I live out of state with a wife and a mortgage,
and a stack full of credit card bills
Anxiety, Depression, and Arthritis,
and too damn many pills

I'm at a funeral for an old friend,
soon its gonna be me
But the Heaven the Preacher keeps talking about,
that don't interest me

when my time is up and I get my reward,
I know where I wanna be
I wanna go back to seven years old
in Lebanon Tennessee

We're all laying on the floor,
my brothers Tom, Tim and me
We're watching the ole Lone Ranger,
on a black and white tv

Three little wild **** heathens,
just as mean as we can be
Fighting the world and each other,
back in Lebanon Tennessee

We're just tow-head kids in cut-off jeans,
running wide open with skinned up knees
I know what Heaven means to me,
1968 in Lebanon Tennessee

I know what Heaven means to me,
1968 in Lebanon Tennessee