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