Compared To You

Compared to my father I’m a college boy

Who never learned to saw a straight line.

Compared to my mother I’m a sinner

Who never saw the light.

But I read my bible every day,

I worked my hands in wood,

I ain’t always done my best but I’ve done the best I could.

Compared to you I am Appalachian south

When I hear those sweet words like peaches in your mouth

I know that your roots run underneath this clay

To the place that makes a dreamer never wanna run away.

Where love is rare,

Love that’s true.

I ain’t never met a woman in my life

That compared to you.

Compared to my brother I’m a seeker

Who just wanted way too much.

Compared to my sister I’m a loner

Who is livin’ out of touch

And I’ve got nowhere else to be.

Would you like to take a walk

Or just sit here and let me hear you talk?

Compared to you I am Appalachian south

When I hear those sweet words like peaches in your mouth

You talk with a drawl and I talk with a twang

But underneath it all we both mean the same thing.

Love is rare,

Love that’s true.

I ain’t never met a woman in my life

That compared to you.

Well now that you know all of that

Do you think that we could maybe close this gap?

Compared to you I am Appalachian south

When I hear those sweet words like peaches in your mouth

I know that your roots run underneath this clay

To the place that makes a dreamer never wanna run away.

Where love is rare,

Love that’s true.

I ain’t never met a woman in my life

That compared to you.