Written by : Kelley Lovelace
When your wheelhouse is the land of cotton
The first time you leave it can be strange it can be shocking
Not everybody drives a truck not everybody drinks sweet tea
Not everybody owns a gun wears a ball cap boots and jeans
Not everybody goes to church or watches every Nascar race
Not everybody knows the words to ring of fire or amazing grace
Oh Dixie land
I hope you understand
When I miss my Tennessee home
And I been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my southern comfort zone
I have walked the streets of Rome I have been to foreign lands
I know what it's like to talk and have nobody understand
I have seen the Eiffel tower lit up on a Paris night
I have kissed a west coast girl underneath the northern lights
I know what it's like to be the only one like me
To take a good hard look around and be in the minority
And I miss my Tennessee home
I can see the ways that I've grown
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my southern comfort zone
I miss your biscuits and your gravy
Fireflies dancing in the night
You have fed me you have saved me
Billy graham and Martha white
I have since become a drifter
And I just can't wait to pack
'Cause I know the route I leave on
It will always bring me back
When I miss my Tennessee home
And I've been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my southern comfort zone
Look away look away