Closest Thing To You I'm Gonna Find

California girls they have a way

Of moving their mouths just a certain way

Saying things that always seem so right

But when the shine wears off at the end of the day

I'm left with the tab and not a word to say

'Cause I see your face when they turn out my light

So I keep another night by this fire and drink some wine

It's the closest thing to you I'm gonna find

New York ladies that drive men crazy

Can't keep up I'm from the South and lazy

This town stays open too late for these old bones

And maybe it's because its got too many faces

Crammed like fishes in compact places

This is why all of them seem desperate and alone

So I pick back up the cigarettes but only for the night

It's the closest thing to you I'm gonna find

Hey!

Georgia girls took all my pennies

Every time I come back I fall for many

Wake up and wonder why I ever left here

When we spend all night with a drink to the face

Get caught up in politics and race

I just smile and shove the cotton further down my ear

And my hands are full of the sticky sap from your backyard Georgia pine

It's the closest thing to you I'm gonna find.