Makes you wanna build A 10 percent down White picket fence house on this dirt Its that elm shade Red roads clay you grew up on You circled up on Drift a cloud back Behind county roads The mud on her jeans that she peeled off

Are better than you thought they'd ever be Sweet and tender things Are so much nicer than silly games Softness makes it easier to smile It's better to remember things That makes the sun shine in your memory There's clouds enough for you to see Smile for

Hey, hey what can I say I grew up in the heartland USA I sing it loud and proud and I make a lotta noise I'm an all-American middle class white boy We wasn't rich but we wasn't poor Lived on a cul-de-sac 'til my parents divorced I drove a hand-me-down

Join the Scottish revolution Freedom must be won by blood Now we call for revolution Play the pipes and cry out loud Rally all the clans Now that our time has come to fight Scotland must unite We'll make a stand on Stirling ground To put a challenge to

I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? My girl (my girl, my girl) Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl) I've got sunshine on a cloudy day Hey hey hey With my girl When it's cold outside I've got the month of May I've got so much honey the bees envy

But down the road the sun is shining In every cloud there's a silver lining Just keep holding on (just keep holding on) And every heartache makes you stronger But it won't be much longer You'll find love, you'll find peace And the you you're meant to be

And a smile from you Close your eyes and dream of a sunny place Watch the world light up when you smile Stay with me and smile at me, sunny face Chase the clouds away with your smile Make a smile for me Lately I've been so lonely Might make these blues

If I make sound, it better be loud If rock and roll's dead, you can kill me right now I'd rather be dead than bored out of my mind Till my voice is blowing out What if one day everything changed Will these words have any use to me I didn't make it here

Find a thing you understand You could be my kind of man Find a thing that you love You could be my And will you do the best you can Don't walk too proud, don't talk too loud And make it up as you go And take whatever you are given And leave what you

Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (Make it real loud) Give me that thing that I love (Turn the lights on) (A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Make it real loud Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch I live for the applause, applause, applause I live for the