I was born in a field of sunflowers and I didn't feel a thing Rhinestone pine straw and birds with a song to sing I grew up with love in the walls and concrete beneath my feet Why would I ever leave this place when sunflowers are all that I see? Then I met a traveler, told me the world's much bigger than this And he showed me his leather jacket and the handcuffs he broke off his wrist So I snuck out the back door Said I'm never coming back But Mama stopped me from the window and she said go, but don't forget what you have She said, be careful with them girls Honey, it's a wild, wild world Yeah So I got drunk in a school zone And I ran from the cops I thought man this is living ain't it I ain't never, I ain't never gonna stop I got high up in New York I got low in Tennessee It took bleeding on a bathroom floor to remember what my mama said to me She said, be careful with them girls Honey, it's a wild, wild world And if I'm going soon, I wanna leave something If I'm going soon, I wanna do it right And when I go, all that I'm leaving Is all my love behind And when I die I want my life to look like blue skies and rain Sunflowers and leather is the way