I swear I don't know how I trusted

A montero with the ac busted

A couple bad demos on a burned cd

Would take me all the way to tennessee.

I showed up to the new apartment

First month's, last month's, two deposits

Hadn't heard the sound of a door slam yet

Thank god I was an optimist.

I drove circles around this town

Trying to write circles around this town

Trying to say something with meaning, something worth singing about

I've been kind and I've been ruthless

Yeah, I got here but the truth is

Thought when I hit it, it'd all look different

But I still got the pedal down

Driving circles around this town.

So many times I thought about leaving

Got my ass kicked trying to compete with

Everybody else's ones that got away

Hung around long enough to catch a break.

Couple hundred songs and the ones that finally worked

Was the one about a car and the one about a church

That I wrote.

Driving circles around this town

Trying to write circles around this town

Trying to say something with meaning, something worth singing about

I've been kind and I've been ruthless

Yeah, I got here but the truth is

Thought when I hit it, it'd all look different

But I still got the pedal down

Driving circles around this town

Driving circles around this town.

I drove circles around this town

Trying to write circles around this town

Trying to say something with meaning, something worth singing about

I've been kind and I've been ruthless

Yeah, I got here but the truth is

Thought when I hit it, it'd all look different

But I still got the pedal down

I still get lost, I still get found

Driving circles around this town

Oh, yeah...