My Little Town Lyrics - Singles - Brian Vander Ark

With her eldest out in the field 

Since the day that the orders came 

And took her youngest boy away 

Took him over the ocean 

Like a soldier 

He showed no emotion 

He's always been special 

Not just one of the crowd 

Got his name in the paper 

Would'a made his old man so proud 

And you can see for miles around 

Standing on 

The shores by my little town 

There's a heartbeat that beating profound 

You can hear it out there 

You can feel it I swear 

Well the restless gotta get outta this place 

Those who settled search for a saving grace 

You can read the stories written there on their faces 

In my little town 

My little town 

Another fight in a war gone wrong 

With all our soldiers standing big and strong 

Thinking what he wouldn't say 

So he talks of this girl back home 

And how the made angels in the fallen snow 

And we're saving our money 

To move out on our own 

In a little house nearby 

She's gonna make it our home... someday 

And you can see for miles around 

Standing on 

The shores by my little town 

There's a heartbeat that beating profound 

You can feel it out there 

You can hear it I swear 

When I come home my girl's gonna be surprised 

Gonna slip in the back door like a dream in disguise 

And we'll make love whiles she's lookin' in my eyes 

In my little town 

My little town 

Well we have a factory with idle machines 

And high school heroes with their scholarship dreams 

And weekend warriors who have answered the call 

Whose homecomings were a surprise after all 

And now that mother with her chin on her chest 

Says she wishes they'd have dressed him in his Sunday best 

'cause he ain't just another soldier that's been laid to rest 

In my little town 

My little town 

And his girl is still asleep upstairs 

And his girl is still alseep upstairs; 

In that little house that would have been theirs 

She wants to dream cuz all hope is scarce 

In my little town 

My little town