These city lights can't beat a harvest moon

Ten thousand miles of sidewalk to a country boy in June

I'm up here in a penthouse

Got a feather bed and Georgia on my mind

They got me talkin' funny

Walkin' like a big wheel struttin' down Fifth Avenue

And they say back roads lead to nowhere

They'll just take you on a round trip dreamer's ride

But the main roads that I've traveled

Left me stranded so many times

And left memories of the bad times that I've had

I guess this year I'll make some plans for home

This sinless sound of the beat just ain't my kind of song

I can have the most expensive kind of fun

To take this rat race off my mind

And behind a phony smile

The tears keep tellin' me I'll always feel alone

And they say back roads lead to nowhere

They'll just take you on a round trip dreamer's ride

But the main roads that I've traveled

Left me stranded so many times

And left memories of the bad times that I've had