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With jet black hair and big brown eyes
Such a sweetness beneath that hard-bitten disguise
She does what she wants and she does it so well
Sheâs got secrets, sheâll never tell
Her scars will cut you deep like a knife
The most beautiful thing youâll ever see in this life
Sheâll break your heart with a single glance
But youâll always know right where she stands
Across the ocean, across the sea
Lives a small town girl from Tennessee
The whole damn world is burning down
And sheâs across the sea in London town
You knew her back when she was a girl
And the powder disappeared up her nose with a twirl
But now sheâs a woman, so honest and true
So fetching and foreign to you
She flies like a falcon, her pretty wings spread
She circles the globe while youâre stuck in your head
Once in a blue moon she comes back through town
With a passion so pure and unbound
Across the ocean, across the sea
Lives a small town girl from Tennessee
The whole damn world is burning down
And sheâs across the sea in London town
Sheâs got a freedom you so wish you had
Some call it a death wish, but you know it ainât that
She'll love you in ways you ain't been loved before
But sheâs away on a far distant shore
Thereâs something about her that stays when sheâs gone
Like a half remembered line from an old country song
A mystical vision you can never quite grasp
So you pray for her to come back
Across the ocean, across the sea
Lives a small town girl from Tennessee
The whole damn world is burning down
And sheâs across the sea in London town
- Album:
- The Man I Once Was