Keith Toby Upstairs Downtown Lyrics

Upstairs Downtown Lyrics

(Toby Keith/Carl Goff, Jr.)

 

 Route 14 Box 308

 She said goodbye at the cattle-guard gate

 Hoping she would find her a place in the world

 With her mind made up and tears in her eyes

 It almost made her daddy cry

 He said don't forget to call when you get there girl.

 

 Driving on that two lane road hoping she might find

 A whole lot more waiting up ahead than what she left behind

 

 Moving upstairs, downtown

 Life's too short to be hanging around

 She's eighteen and it's time she got out of the wood

 She's getting out while the getting's good

 

 All bills paid and a room with a view

 She's unpacked a dish or two

 She just got her phone turned on today

 There's a big, old world waiting just outside

 As she's thumbing through the classifieds

 Looking for work and any old job's okay

 

 Driving on that cross-town freeway hoping she might find

 A whole lot more waiting up ahead than what she left behind

 

 Living upstairs, downtown

 Life's too short to be hanging around

 She's eighteen and it's time she got out of the wood

 She's getting out while the getting's good

 

 Then she lost her job at the grocery store

 And the wolf came knocking at the door

 The red notice said they turned off her telephone

 There's nothing left for her to do so she's packed up a thing or two

 Loaded her car down, now she's headed home

 

 Driving on that two lane road hoping she might find

 A whole lot more waiting up ahead than what she left behind

 

 Living upstairs, downtown

 Life's too short to be hanging around

 She's eighteen and it's time she got back to the wood

 She's getting out while the getting's good