Lyrics:

Miles of corn and farm machines
You got your pulp paper magazines
Thing about them small town dreams
They can kill you

Mama tried to raise you right
Into a good south Missouri wife
With the bricks of God
and sacrifice that built you

She bought a one way ticket on a one way track
She ain't coming back, that's all
She went looking for a place to fall

Sick of waiting on her heart's desire
The little girl's just full of fire, that's all
She went looking for a place to fall

No one seemed to understand it
You had a different plan
Even that ring on your left hand
Wouldn't break it

You packed your bag
you said good bye
you didn't leave a reason why
Cause a chance don't come back twice unless you take it

Your daddy worked his hands
Until they cracked, until they bled
He was the wisest man you'd ever found

And on the day you left
When your mama hung her head
He said, "She'll get there, she'll just take the long way round"

For twenty years you built a life
Beneath those New York City lights
With the blood and gut and sacrifice that made you

You fell in love, you had a child
She grew up tall, she grew up wild
How could that devil in her smile amaze you

When she buys a one way ticket on a one way track
She ain't coming back, that's all
She went looking for a place to fall

Sick of waiting on her heart's desire
Your little girl's just full of fire, that's all ...