Ain’t What It Used to Be Songtext
von Billy Currington

That backward town in my rearview
Was gonna be my whole world
Till my factory job got shipped to Mexico
And a city boy stole my sweet girl

I used to know everybody by name
Everybody′s moved away
Can't say that I′m really wantin' to go
But I've run out of reasons to stay

This ain′t nothin′ like what I
Had in mind for me
But then again my future
Ain't what it used to be


I thought like my dad and his daddy before
That I would die where I was born
Live in a small town dream in a big backyard
Raisin′ babies and corn

Now here I am, one eye on the road
Tryin' to read the map on the dash
Nowhere close to making up my mind
With a fork in the road comin′ fast

This ain't nothin′ like what I
Had in mind for me
But then again my future
Ain't what it used to be

This ain't nothin′ like what I
Had in mind for me
But then again my future
Ain′t what it used to be

That backward town in my rearview
Was gonna be my whole world