Brian Vander Ark - My Little Town lyrics

With her eldest out in the field Since the day that the orders came And took her youngest boy away Took him over the ocean Like a soldier He showed no emotion He's always been special Not just one of the crowd Got his name in the paper Woulda made his old man so proud And you can see for miles around Standing on The shores by my little town There's a heartbeat that beating profound You can hear it out there You can feel it I swear Well the restless gotta get outta this place Those who settled search for a saving grace You can read the stories written there on their faces In my little town My little town Another fight in a war gone wrong With all our soldiers standing big and strong Thinking what he wouldn't say So he talks of this girl back home And how the made angels in the fallen snow And we're saving our money To move out on our own In a little house nearby She's gonna make it our home... someday And you can see for miles around Standing on The shores by my little town There's a heartbeat that beating profound You can feel it out there You can hear it I swear When I come home my girl's gonna be surprised Gonna slip in the back door like a dream in disguise And we'll make love whiles she's lookin' in my eyes In my little town My little town Well we have a factory with idle machines And high school heroes with their scholarship dreams And weekend warriors who have answered the call Whose homecomings were a surprise after all And now that mother with her chin on her chest Says she wishes they'd have dressed him in his Sunday best ??cause he ain't just another soldier that's been laid to rest In my little town My little town And his girl is still asleep upstairs In that little house that would have been there She wants to dream only of his stares In my little town My little town