Too Much in a Small Town

(Barefoot country-blues. Stomping rhythm. Acoustic guitar and a little grit.)

Verse 1

They like their girls quiet,

Hands in their laps

Smile when you’re hurting,

Don’t talk back

I came in barefoot,

Heart on my sleeve

With too many feelings

They didn’t believe

Verse 2

They drink their secrets

Down real slow

Say “bless your heart”

But they don’t want to know

I said the truth

Like a prayer out loud

They said, “girl, you’re too much”

For a small town

Chorus

I was too much in a small town

Too bright in a one-street light

Too honest for the hush-hush

Too wild to live half-alive

Yeah, I was too much in a small town

But I was just enough for me

I didn’t come here to be smaller

I came here to be free

Verse 3

They like their stories

Neat and clean

Don’t talk about what

Happens in between

I loved too hard,

I felt too deep

I cried in the daylight,

Didn’t know how to keep

Pre-Chorus

If being quiet is how you belong

Then I guess I was born wrong

Chorus

’Cause I was too much in a small town

Too loud when the truth got tight

Too real for the pretty lies

Too stubborn to dim my light

Yeah, I was too much in a small town

But I was just enough for me

I didn’t come here to be smaller

I came here to be free

Bridge

Let ’em keep their fences

Let ’em keep their fear

I’d rather burn honest

Than disappear

Final Chorus

Yeah, I was too much in a small town

But I wasn’t wrong

I was just singing

A bigger song

And I’m still too much,

And I still won’t bow

If loving this hard

Means I don’t fit in now

(last line, soft)

Guess I was never meant to be small, anyhow.