He certainly did earn that reputation.
How to be proud of that town ain't nobody heard of
Had a big dream, seventeen, some day how to grow up
How to make dust fly out on a no name road
Yeah, I learned it from the radio
How to wake up
How to work tough
How to roll up those sleeves
How to throw down
How to get loud
And what to put in that drink
To give the stars in the sky a little halo
Yeah, I learned it from the radio
If it wasn't for the speakers in the door
Telling me a truth I hadn't ever heard before
I never woulda kissed that girl
Never woulda known what to say
I woulda never known better
I'd have let her get away
Thank God for four wheel drive
Thank God for windows down
And all the DJ's in all those little static towns
How to live
How to love
Everything I need to know
I learned it from the radio
What to say when you think that you've found that girl
Who to call when she's gone and she wrecks your world
How to get over it, yeah, how to let her go
I learned it from the radio
How to see it all, from a front porch
And how to say it all just using three chords
And when to run when you're young
When to come back home
I learned it from the radio
If it wasn't for the speakers in the door
Telling me a truth I hadn't ever heard before
I never woulda kissed that girl
Never woulda known what to say
I woulda never known better
I'd have let her get away
Thank God for four wheel drive
Thank God for windows down
And all the DJ's in all those little static towns
How to live
How to love
Everything I need to know
I learned it from the radio
From the radio
I learned it from the radio
Back when we used to
Burn it up
Turn it up, up, up, up
If it wasn't for the speakers in the door
Telling me a truth I hadn't ever heard before
I never woulda kissed that girl
Never woulda known what to say
I woulda never known better
I'd have let her get away
Thank God for four wheel drive
Thank God for windows down
And all the DJ's in all those little static towns
How to live
How to love
Everything I need to know
I learned it from the radio
Mmm, from the radio
I learned it from the radio
Back when we used to
Burn it up
Turn it up
Had a big dream, seventeen, some day how to grow up
How to make dust fly out on a no name road
Yeah, I learned it from the radio
How to wake up
How to work tough
How to roll up those sleeves
How to throw down
How to get loud
And what to put in that drink
To give the stars in the sky a little halo
Yeah, I learned it from the radio
If it wasn't for the speakers in the door
Telling me a truth I hadn't ever heard before
I never woulda kissed that girl
Never woulda known what to say
I woulda never known better
I'd have let her get away
Thank God for four wheel drive
Thank God for windows down
And all the DJ's in all those little static towns
How to live
How to love
Everything I need to know
I learned it from the radio
What to say when you think that you've found that girl
Who to call when she's gone and she wrecks your world
How to get over it, yeah, how to let her go
I learned it from the radio
How to see it all, from a front porch
And how to say it all just using three chords
And when to run when you're young
When to come back home
I learned it from the radio
If it wasn't for the speakers in the door
Telling me a truth I hadn't ever heard before
I never woulda kissed that girl
Never woulda known what to say
I woulda never known better
I'd have let her get away
Thank God for four wheel drive
Thank God for windows down
And all the DJ's in all those little static towns
How to live
How to love
Everything I need to know
I learned it from the radio
From the radio
I learned it from the radio
Back when we used to
Burn it up
Turn it up, up, up, up
If it wasn't for the speakers in the door
Telling me a truth I hadn't ever heard before
I never woulda kissed that girl
Never woulda known what to say
I woulda never known better
I'd have let her get away
Thank God for four wheel drive
Thank God for windows down
And all the DJ's in all those little static towns
How to live
How to love
Everything I need to know
I learned it from the radio
Mmm, from the radio
I learned it from the radio
Back when we used to
Burn it up
Turn it up
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Learned It From the Radio Lyrics as written by Jimmy Robbins Ashley Gorley
Lyrics © Anthem Entertainment, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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