In the beginning there was Jesus
And sin was black and hell was hot
They never gave me any reason
And I never knew to shrug them all

And I was taught not to come home late
Or turn my hand into a fist
I've never heard the term RedState or fundamentalist
But those ancient empty skies
Will harm me all my life
Rejections, all the lights that have left us behind

Dancing in the back of the pickup truck
Couch up, flying down the road
Singing along your favorite song
Song nobody here would ever know
And how the drowsiness of happiness
Make sure that it starts you it
And the ropes we give into what it
Says from the Chattahoochee river goes away
Now nothing else could ever say

Then in college there was hay Gold
And PBR and Mary Jane
And you used to peel off all the play bulls
I used to dream of their own planes

And we made love in your bedroom
My mind wasn't there at all
I was dreaming about the Warhawk
It was hanging on the wall

But those ancient empty skies
Will hunt you all your live
Objection, oh, the light that had
Left us behind

Dancing in the back of the pickup truck
Couch up, flying down the road
Singing along your favorite song
Song nobody here would ever know
And how the drowsiness of happiness
Make sure that it starts you it
And the ropes we give into what it
Says from the Chattahoochee river goes away
Now nothing else could ever say

Some political freedom
We volunteered for that campaign
An ideological season
Come, determine and fade away

Now it's all about the winning
Now it's all about the job
Now it's all about forgetting
Now it's about just getting on

Dancing in the back of the pickup truck
Couch up, flying down the road
Singing along your favorite song
Song nobody here would ever know
And how the drowsiness of happiness
Make sure that it starts you it
And the ropes we give into what it
Says from the Chattahoochee river goes away
Now nothing else could ever say

They will go back to that river
We'll take off all our clothes
But do we ever get to come out clean again?
That's all I really wanna know