Southern Comfort Zone

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Sep. 27, 20121 viewer5K views

Southern Comfort Zone Lyrics

[Spoken Intro]
You might be a redneck…
(radio static)
The Grand Ole Opry coming to you live from…
(radio static)

[Verse 1]
When your wheelhouse is the land of cotton
The first time you leave it can be strange, it can be shocking
Not everybody drives a truck, not everybody drinks sweet tea
Not everybody owns a gun, wears a ball cap, boots, and jeans
Not everybody goes to church
Or watches every NASCAR race
Not everybody knows the words to
“Ring Of Fire” or “Amazing Grace”

[Chorus]
Oh, Dixie Land
I hope you understand
When I miss my Tennessee home
And I've been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my southern comfort zone

[Verse 2]
I have walked the streets of Rome, I have been to foreign lands
I know what it's like to talk and have nobody understand
I have seen the Eiffel Tower lit up on a Paris night
I have kissed a West Coast girl underneath the Northern Lights
I know what it's like to be the only one like me
To take a good hard look around and be a minority

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[Chorus]
And I miss my Tennessee home
I can see the ways that I've grown
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my southern comfort zone

[Bridge]
I miss your biscuits and your gravy
Fireflies dancing in the night
You have fed me, you have saved me
Billy Graham and Martha White
I have since become a drifter
And I just can't wait to pack
Cause I know the route I leave on
It will always bring me back

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
I wish I was in Dixie Again
I miss my Tennessee Home
I've been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my southern comfort zone

[Outro]
Look away, look away

I wish I was in Dixie, away, look away
I wish I was in the land of cotton
Look away, look away

I wish I was in Dixie… in Dixie…

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I wanted to do an open-your-mind type of song about leaving the South. Everything I love in my life was formed between West Virginia and Tennessee – that’s the core of my experience. It’s easy to live in Nashville, where there’s a lot of like-minded people and you know all the rules. But then there’s the first time you go to Canada and stand outside at night in winter and go, “What is that neon-green stuff in the sky?” Or you land in Paris for vacation and walk through the streets and nothing prepares you for looking up as the lights on the Eiffel Tower start to go on. It’s like, “What in the world? This is magic!” The song says two things at the same time: It’s great to have Southern pride and not wanna live anywhere else, but it’s great too to see the rest of the world.

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