Closer To You - Carrie Newcomer

Missouri’s tied together like a rolling rag rug

Bit and pieces and necessity and love

You can sense the proud and working dirt poor

Clean and pressed like Sunday shirt but edge worn

Chorus: You think by now we’d be a little further on

For all this tumbling we’ve been through

As I’m leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois

I feel like I’m finally getting closer to you

When women look for answer then learn to listen and sit still

Men think they’ve got to take some kind of stand

Yet we’re drawn together like magnet to magnet

Spend years trying to explain again

Chorus: You think by now we’d be a little further on

For all this tumbling we’ve been through

As I’m leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois

I feel like I’m finally getting closer to you

There’s a photo on the table of my family and me

Taken in some studio in 1963

The faces are familiar but I can’t tell you why

Most families nod and then they sigh

Chorus: You think by now we’d be a little further on

For all this tumbling we’ve been through

As I’m leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois

I feel like I’m finally getting closer to you

When I get healed I’m gonna be a healer

That’s just the nature of those things

We don’t exist in any solid form

We’re always moving and changing

Chorus: You think by now we’d be a little further on

For all this tumbling we’ve been through

As I’m leaving Missouri into Southern Illinois

I feel like I’m finally getting closer to you