We left town in a borrowed car not sure just where to go So we drove west on 40 straight into the glow Of a pastel-colored sunset where no one really knows If it's sayin' "Boy, keep drivin'" or "Turn and go back home" But you looked at me and I could see your mother in your eyes I thought about the things she lost and how she always cries And how your daddy tries to fight the truth with Bombay gin And I knew we'd keep goin' to try to end up less like them Oh, the sins of the father Drag like anchors on the kid Come on, let's go a little farther All the way to anywhere more than this We hit Tulsa, Oklahoma on the third day of July Got a cheap apartment to wait for firecracker skies So we could celebrate rich old white, poor boys that died too young What says "freedom" more than havin' a new place to be from Oh, the sins of the father Drag like anchors on the kid Come on, let's go a little farther All the way to anywhere more than this You get eight buck an hour to fix the hems on ladies' gowns I go to school to learn computers and at night I work downtown Servin' drinks to college kids whose daddies pay the bills They ain't seen the real world yet, and prob'ly never will Oh, the sins of the father Call like echoes to the kid Come on, let's go a little farther All the way to anywhere more than this Come on to anywhere more than this