In My Own Backyard-Joe Diffie

[ti:In My Own Backyard] [ar:Joe Diffie] [al:Honky Tonk Attitude] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]In My Own Backyard - Joe Diffie [00:12.62]I thought that life was runnin' off [00:15.58] [00:17.58]Leavin' me behind [00:20.31] [00:21.90]So like a fool I jumped the fence [00:24.79] [00:26.43]Just to see what I could find [00:29.25] [00:31.13]But love kept disappearing like [00:34.31]Children chasing fire flies in the dark [00:39.31] [00:43.39]And to think that I once had it all [00:46.26] [00:47.77]In my own backyard [00:51.68] [00:56.40]You'd never know it now but I used to have it all [01:04.52] [01:05.09]A swing set and a plastic pool a shaggy dog [01:09.30]That lived to fetch a ball [01:13.36] [01:14.34]An angel with a glass of tea laughin' at the kids and me [01:20.00]All soakin' wet from washin' that old car [01:24.72] [01:26.39]And to think that I once had it all in my own backyard [01:34.16] [01:38.56]That bare spot's grown over [01:41.38] [01:43.10]Where third base used to be [01:46.57] [01:47.84]And the weeds have choked out all the flowers [01:50.88] [01:51.82]They can't kill the memories [01:55.48] [01:57.33]Lord I'd love to run back home [02:00.17] [02:01.48]But there's no one there for me [02:06.10] [02:09.21]And that grass I used to hate to mow [02:12.12] [02:14.07]Sure is lookin' green [02:18.24] [02:21.85]You'd never know it now but I used to have it all [02:30.29] [02:31.04]A swing set and a plastic pool a shaggy dog [02:35.21]That lived to fetch a ball [02:39.14] [02:40.20]An angel with a glass of tea laughin' at the kids and me [02:45.86]All soakin' wet from washin' that old car [02:50.48] [02:52.15]And to think that I once had it all in my own backyard [03:00.18] [03:02.41]Ahhh you'd never know it now but I used to have it all all all [03:15.76] [03:18.22]Once I had everything [03:19.44] [03:20.98]In my own backyard