black boots red lips and a pink tank top baby blue short skirt she's ready to rock like she's got places to go boyfriend pulls up in his loaded ride she grins jumps in they're makin' time down farmer bennett's gravel road children of the heartland searching for their soul this town has seen a better day but this town is all they know with
3 stoplights and grain elevator working the land to put food on the table family life struggles to survive but these roots run as deep the soil and seed through floods and droughts they make ends meet where people give it all and ask for little welcome to the middle
they see the world through cable tv 2 years 3 months they'll be free to decide a life of their own like dust in the wake of dirt track ride they'll leave this half horse town behind there wont be no turnin' back countin' the days til graduation dreaming 'bout what they'll see with a full tank of gas and a faded map they'll be free from
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a year in california they'll start to miss that south dakota farm town they couldn't wait to ditch
with 3 stoplights and a grain elevator they'll work the land and put food on the table raise their kids in the heartland teach them family pride plant their dreams in the soil and seed trust in god and in what they believe give it all they've got and ask for little welcome to the middle