Boxes Lyrics - Ben Rector

I found boxes of first CDs 

Trying to get my office clean 

Took ten years of folks giving them to me 'till I sat down 

And I saw hesitant poses and torn-up jeans 

In cover photos friends took for free 

Full of six-minute songs and all their lifelong dreams 

The world turned down 

And they're just dreaming of some life out on the road, oh 

And all I dream about's a day that I'll be home 

I'd long forgotten how it feels to chase a dream 

Thank God for boxes of first CDs (ayy!) 

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On through this rolodex of railroad tracks and fresh-cut hair 

I see Joy who won some Grammys and is now a millionaire 

Looks different now than she does right there, that's how it goes 

As for the rest, I bet they're teachers or pastors now 

Pictured in jackets girlfriends picked out 

All their hometowns turned these up 

All the labels turned them down 

And never wrote, woah 

They're just dreaming of some life out on the road, oh 

All I dream about's a day that I'll be home 

Guess I forgot the way it feels to chase a dream 

Thank God for boxes of first CDs, yeah 

A thrift store jacket and ten less pounds 

Looking like a fool in some big field with my bare feet on the ground 

Bad song titles and worse drum sounds 

I didn't know 

Photos 

That all my dreams'd come true out here on the road 

I never dreamed that I could call this life my own 

Thought I'd forgotten how it feels to chase a dream 

But thank God for how it feels to chase a dream 

Thank God for boxes of first CDs