This song's about coming home, getting back to your roots, and not worrying about who or what you've become to the rest of the world. To me, that's something worth counting on.
Jason Craig - Songwriting, vocals, guitars
Ben Patel - Drums, bass, recording
Recorded at Products of Inertia Studios - Parkville, MO
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The places are real; only the names have been changed to protect the weary. Worth County, MO; smallest county in the state. That yellow light still flashes over Highway 169 to this day.
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Worth Countin’ On
(Worth County Song)
© 2009 Jason Craig
All Rights Reserved
A yellow light is flashin over highway 169
For most folks headed through it’s just a slowdown but for me it’s a finish line
A hundred shows in 16 weeks and every day the same routine
Gotta get on back to where this life can’t get the best of me
I’m coming home to my own, to the place where I was from
Back where my friends and family don’t care who I’ve become
The neon lights, the endless nights, for a while they’ll all be gone
Cause back in Worth County… I got somethin’ worth countin’ on
As I step into the kitchen there’s my mama and she breaks into a grin
She wraps her arms around me says Good Lord boy you’re way too thin
There’s ham and beans and cornbread on the table for you there
Bobby called he’ll pick you up at six and drive you to the fair
I’m coming home to my own, to the place where I was from
Back where my friends and family don’t care who I’ve become
The neon lights, the endless nights, for a while they’ll all be gone
Cause back in Worth County… I got somethin’ worth countin’ on
So I walk out and Dad’s already waiting down by the barn
Says I hope my big bad rock star ain’t forgotten how to work down on the farm
Reckon I heard thunder rollin down off Oakley’s hill
Hitch the tractor to the wagon we can get that hay in still
I’m coming home to my own, to the place where I was from
Back where my friends and family don’t care who I’ve become
The neon lights, the endless nights, for a while they’ll all be gone
Cause back in Worth County… I got somethin’ worth countin’ on
Got somethin worth countin on got somethin worth countin on
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