Well I hit the road a-runnin' when I was very young
Said goodbye to East Kentucky then put it in every song I sung
It's been the strangest trip, but unlike any drugs
It feels like I'm stuck inside a hole that my own conviction dug

So I'm goin' back to Pikeville again
I'm goin' there to look up all my friends
We're gonna have some fun where the hilbillies run
I'm going back to Pikeville again

Well the Appalachian foothills there in all their majesty
Really get my heart a-pumpin', lord they always set me free
I feel so much bеtter that you can't beleivе
Sometimes I have to ask myself just why I'd ever leave

So I'm goin' back to Pikeville again
I'm goin' there to look up all my friends
We're gonna have some fun where the hilbillies run
I'm going back to Pikeville again

Yeah I'm goin' back to Pikeville again
I'm goin' there to look up all my friends
We're gonna have some fun where the hilbillies run
I'm going back to Pikeville again

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The buildings you see, the price of gasoline
Ideas that evolve from the head
That got acted out not defeated by doubt
Or some notion that was born in a hay bale

This world's just a dream
Not as crazy as it seems
We have the power to change everything
Because it's all just a dream

The drink in your cup it was made up
By a person who thought it would taste good
So why can't there be a world not so extreme
If we try I know that we could

This world's just a dream
Not as hopeless as it seems
We have the power to change everything
Because it's all just a dream

I dreamt a world last night where we didn't fight
Over conquering big piles of sand
Or who was better at church or how much each sin was worth
Or whether someone died from a black or white hand

This world's just a dream
Not as crazy as it seems
We have the power to change everything
Because it's all just a dream