Carrie Newcomer - Closer To You lyrics

Missouri's tied together like a rolling rag rug Bit and pieces and necessity and love You can sense the proud and working dirt poor Clean and pressed like Sunday shirt but edge worn Chorus: You think by now we'd be a little further on For all this tumbling we've been through As I'm leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois I feel like I'm finally getting closer to you When women look for answer then learn to listen and sit still Men think they've got to take some kind of stand Yet we're drawn together like magnet to magnet Spend years trying to explain again Chorus: You think by now we'd be a little further on For all this tumbling we've been through As I'm leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois I feel like I'm finally getting closer to you There's a photo on the table of my family and me Taken in some studio in 1963 The faces are familiar but I can't tell you why Most families nod and then they sigh Chorus: You think by now we'd be a little further on For all this tumbling we've been through As I'm leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois I feel like I'm finally getting closer to you When I get healed I'm gonna be a healer That's just the nature of those things We don't exist in any solid form We're always moving and changing Chorus: You think by now we'd be a little further on For all this tumbling we've been through As I'm leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois I feel like I'm finally getting closer to you