I was born in a field of sunflowers

and I didn't feel a thing

Rhinestone pine straw and birds with a song to sing

I grew up with love in the walls

and concrete beneath my feet

Why would I ever leave this place

when sunflowers are all that I see?

Then I met a traveler

told me the world's much bigger than this

And he showed me his leather jacket

and the handcuffs he broke off his wrist

So I snuck out the back door

Said I'm never coming back

But Mama stopped me from the window and she said go

but don't forget what you have

She said, be careful with them girls

Honey, it's a wild, wild world

Yeah

So I got drunk in a school zone

And I ran from the cops

I thought man this is living ain't it

I ain't never, I ain't never gonna stop

I got high up in New York

I got low in Tennessee

It took bleeding on a bathroom floor

to remember what my mama said to me

She said, be careful with them girls

Honey, it's a wild, wild world

And if I'm going soon, I wanna leave something

If I'm going soon, I wanna do it right

And when I go, all that I'm leaving

Is all my love behind

And when I die I want my life to

look like blue skies and rain

Sunflowers and leather is the way