West Hills

[Intro]

Alright, well, I'm 26 so I've lived here for 26 years

I married my high school sweetheart, so we've been marri—

We've been together 11 years

Um, I don't really travel much so I've just been here, ha-ha

Uh, I'm, I'm busy, John, you'll have to wait

Uh, my little brother, he moved into the community

And they tried to tape him to a flagpole or a tree up at the high school

So if you don't fit their mold—

Just a nice, small community, everybody knows everybody

Good place to live and to raise kids

We'll be here forever

So, yeah, it's a good area

[Verse 1]

I was born right here in Zion

God's own son

His Holy Ghost stories and bloodshed

Never scared me none

While they bowed their heads on Sunday

I cut out through the hedges and fields

Where the light could place its hands on my head

In the west hills

[Chorus]

Free in the west hills

Free in the west hills

[Verse 2]

She's got two full-grown children

One still on the vine

And once I got to know him

I loved him like he was mine

Some nights we'd drive up the mouth of the canyon

On hillbilly heroin pills

We get out and watch the sunset

Peaceful and still

[Chorus]

And free in the west hills

Free in the west hills

[Verse 3]

When the sheriff kicked my door down

I was sleeping in my own bed

And the mess I got caught up in

Rained hard down on my head

They got me for possession

Of them hillbilly heroin pills

Enough to kill the horses that run

Free in the west hills

They got me for possession of enough to kill

The horses that run

[Chorus]

Free in the west hills

Free in the west hills

[Verse 4]

If this life was meant for proving

I could use more years to live

But fifteen in a guardhouse

That's more than I'm willing to give

And if there really is a judgement

When He pulls my chart

He'll reject my actions

But He will know my heart

And He'll prepare a place for me

Where happiness instills

And the light puts its loving hands on my head

Free in the west hills

They got me for possession of enough to kill

The horses that run

[Chorus]

Free in the west hills

Free in the west hills

Free, free in the west hills

In the west hills

In the west hills

Free in the west