Steel Town

I wrecked my first car on Burton Road
First time I saw life flash before my eyes
On my 18th birthday, I fell in the lake
Closest I ever got to bein' baptized

Drinkin' VB in the backseat of Ben's yellow Toyota
Some nights I close my eyes and go there

That old lighthouse shining down
Sound of a rowdy home game crowd
The gravel road to my childhood house
In the heart of a steel town

Outracing V8s in the streets
And counting coal ships from the beach
A part of me will always be
In the heart of a steel town

I played my first show at the Cambridge Hotel
For free beer and three people and one of 'em was my dad
Spent six years in an old van with my brother and an old friend
Playing bar shows every weekend 'til we ran outta gas

Bought a one-way to Nashville, swore I wouldn't look back
But these days, I can't help but miss that

That old lighthouse shinin' down
Sound of a rowdy home game crowd
The gravel road to my childhood house
In the heart of a steel town

Outracing V8s in the streets
And counting coal ships from the beach
A part of me will always be
In the heart of a steel town (hey)

A hundred and forty-one thousand people live in our city of steel
It's a city of industry, coal and steel are its lifeblood
And its harbor is busy with ships
Its horizon is lost in the smoke of steelworks and factories

Most of my friends have moved away
And that old gravel road's been paved
Oh, but some things never change
In the heart of a steel town

They're still racing V8s in the streets (whoa)
And counting coal ships from the beach (whoa)
A part of me will always be (whoa)
In the heart of a steel town (whoa)
In the heart of a steel town (whoa)
I was born in a steel town (whoa)
With the heart of a steel town, whoa