: Music
Hungrytown Road
(Hungrytown)
© 2004 Rebecca Hall.
When we were traveling down in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, we came upon a little dirt track called "Hungrytown Road," no kidding. It just seemed like the perfect title for a country song, so we filed it away and a few months later, a song emerged. It's about having the courage to ask for more out of life, even in small ways. Sometimes decisions that seem tiny and inconsequential at the time turn out to be among the most important in one's life. Remember Oliver Twist? We liked the theme so much that we built the whole album around it, and then changed our working name to Hungrytown, just to rub it in. RH
There’s a road that leads out of this town
And one day gonna follow it down
I’m going down the Hungrytown Road
‘Til I reach the place I belong.
I got married when I was just a young girl
And I’d never seen much of the world
I learned how to fight with the ones that I love
And to pay for the words that I said.
Well I saved and I worked everyday
But I never seemed to put much away
It’s too low a price for a life that’s so dear
So I guess I’ll be moving along
I look up at the mountains so high
Their treetops are brushing the sky
And I know there’s a road that leads past those hills
But I wonder how far it will take me.