Story Behind The Song
It's all about the smoke rising in the third verse. It all flowed out of that verse then I worked back from that.
Song Description
A city girl lost her soul to her job. So she goes to the country to find it.
| Song Length |
4:07 |
Genre |
Country - General, Country - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Relaxed, Serene |
Subject |
Change, Life |
| Similar Artists |
Tim Mcgraw |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
The Country Callin?
Lyrics & Music by: Cameron James ©10/29/05
camjamproductions@yahoo.com
Verse 1
She packed her bags, turned out the lights
Walked out the door n? down five flights
To the street where she hailed a cab - then she looked back one last time
On a life full of holes, dug deep in her soul
With every corporate ladder rung, she fell more
So through the window of this cab she?s lookin? forward, never lookin? back on that life
She hopped a plane grabbed a window seat, she?s been headin? south, so why not see Southern skies
Chorus
City girl needs to find her soul, she?s got no place to call her own
And lookin? up at stars she never thought she?d be fallin?
Yea she?s a city girl but she hears, the Country Callin?
Verse 2 (½ Verse)
A rental car, a general store
She hired a guide to show her more
He took her to an old camp site, and a around a fire, they stayed up and talked all night
He had a manly rugged face but she could feel her fallin? for his country ways
Chorus
City girl?s tryin? to find her soul, she?s got no one to call her own
And lookin? up at stars she never thought she?d be fallin?
Yea she?s a city girl but she hears, the Country Callin?
Verse 3
She warmed her hands by the heat of the fire
And watched the smoke rise higher and higher
Until she fell on her back to see, the Milky Way flowing gracefully in the sky
Those graceful stars above got into her blood
It filled the hole in her heart like a flood
And if God had made a place for her to look up at heaven from this Earth it was here
She found a home and a family under starry skies in the wide open country
Chorus/Coda
Our city girl she found her soul, she found a place to call her own
And lookin? up at stars she never thought she?d be fallin?
Yea she?s a city girl but she hears, the Country Callin?
And man she?s fallin?, and the Country?s Callin?, the Country?s Callin?