This is where I can do what I want This, this is where, this is where nobody cares This is - my log, I sit on top There's moss underneath, you can look if you want Yeah! This is where I got grown up And, this is where, this is where no one found out And this is where I ran off It's where I skipped school, it's where everything's cool Now I bet you wish you were me 'Cause I've got everything a kid needs And nobody to tell me What - what's what My dad keeps us up at night And he kicks us hard when we try to hide And my brother cries and I hold him close And I hold him tight I say it's alright, baby. This is where I grew up When he fell through the ice and I saved his life And I wrapped him up in a braided rug And I begged him, please don't you tell no one Our dad would kill me if He knew I let this happen I know how much he loved him I would'a run would'a run away But I couldn't leave you And I had more reason, I guess, to stay Than I would own up to So I don't blame you I go down to the creek when it's hot Catchin' crawdads till they all get caught Just sit in the shade till the school bell rings And the kids get loose and they all come runnin' I remember when Matty swiped The tire from the car lot and tied it right And we hung it down from the sycamore tree And we swung it all night over Hatcher Creek So don't you go home You don't know what you'd be missing I'm never gonna kiss you