I was young, and dumb as I was young
I swore I would never be the man I was becoming
I told my mama, I ain't dyin in this town
You spend all day running for nothing
Til you end up in the ground
I wanna go back, go back, go
I caught the white horse, and I rode it north
I was going by my middle name and singing for my work
And I thought I'd make it, like old Neil Young
Instead of dyin from the needle and the damage done
I wanna go back, go back, go
Back to Oklahoma, you can lay my body down
Beneath the twisted pines
You can cover up my name, you can carve it on my headstone
There ain't nothin worth the leavin past the Cleveland County Line
I met a waitress, at the edge of the earth
She was smart and knew her way around a mini skirt
She kept her secret, on an old syringe
We kept the fires burnin the hero and the heroin
I wanna go back, go back, go
I took the air in Denver, still the fever came
And I passed out in the Brewery Bar
Tryin to drown the pain
If there's any mercy in the savior's hands
I was sent ten thousand angels down
To take me home again
I wanna go back, go back, go
Back to Oklahoma, you can lay my body down
Beneath the twisted pines
You can cover up my name, you can carve it on my headstone
There ain't nothin worth the leavin past the Cleveland County Line
I made it into Noble, on a Greyhound bus
Mama met me at the depo in my daddy's pickup truck
She said you said it boy, we're all dyin in this town
You spend all day running for nothin, til you end up the ground
Don't you wanna go back, go back, go
Back to Oklahoma, you can lay my body down
Beneath the water table line
You can cover up my name, you can carve it on my headstone
There ain't nothin worth the leavin past the Cleveland County Line