Lyrics:

One two ready go
I asked the man when Texas ended
He said "If you're lucky it won't"
I said I got a gift
I gotta get to Fort Smith
I was starting to lose all hope
The night was young and he pulled out a gun
And the bullet just missed my nose
I thought I was delivered when I crossed the big river
Thought I knew but I just didn't know
I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from poverty
To poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas
Arkansas
I saw the soybean fields and the flat-bed trucks
And I watched the concrete creep
Subdivided shoutin' on a Blackrock Mountain
Sayin' this is how it feels to be free
I read the billboard scripture
Prophesying my damnation
Reaching for life
Preacher's on his third wife
Out in Branson on a big vacation
I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from poverty
To poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas
Arkansas
I saw nuclear plant
Homegrown
And I know it ain't fake
Cuz they grew it in a lake
That they built just to cool it's bones
And they handed out alotta badges
And made alotta energy
That they fired in a wire across state lines
While the state slurped up the fee
And there ain't hardly a place that the meth ain't
Planted a dead white kiss
You can smell it in the air
You can see it in the chair
Itsa pretty damn hard to miss
I saw a lawman shrug his whole body
Resigned to an American god
Said "If they wanted to, they would help themselves"
And then he put away his bible
And he got out a gun
I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from poverty
To poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas
Arkansas

If God lives up in the Rockies
If that's where the big man meddles
Then a lesser being of a lower degree
Musta come down here and settled
I met revalators
And archimandrites
The big
And the belittled
Deep in my mind
I reckon all in good time
We're gonna meet somewhere in the middle
I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from poverty
To poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas
Arkansas
I can't tell you where one thing ended
And another
Did occur
It was new and it was old to me
It was more than I could observe
If what is seen is for the takin'
And the takin'
Can be seen
I'm gonna need your help with the calculations
I'm not sure what it all could mean
I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from poverty
To poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas
Arkansas