This ain't for the faint or the weak of heart

This ain't for the ones who walked away

Just to quit while they're ahead

These boys they are my blood

Like old friends from a war

They've seen me at my worst

This life it takes it's toll

And everyday it gets harder and harder to justify

These dead head drives from Tulsa

But everything's gonna be okay soon as I cross that state line



When the morning light shines through the branches on the pines

Carolina I'm coming home



I ain't seen my bed in months

But there's a girl that keeps it warm

As she cries herself to sleep

While I'm out here on the road

Blue little cans and one night stands and parked cars with girls that know all the words

I always hurt the ones that I love

And I'll spend the rest of my life paying for the pain I put her through

But I swear I'll right these wrongs

And everything is gonna be okay as soon as I cross that state line



When the morning light shines through the branches on the pines

Carolina I'm coming home



And here's to the land of the long leaf pine

The summer land where the sun doth shine

Where the weak grows strong

And the strong grow great

The old north state



When the morning light shines through the branches on the pines

Carolina I'm coming home