How  you think you got here do you know where you been
Tell me, who’se your people,do I know your kin?
Say it’s been a long time,but it don’t really seem so
Just being dragged along on a time arrow

Where you think you’re going,are you even close?
You kind of look familiar,do I know your folks?
Drumming on the dashboard,gearshift guitar
Exit sign suggestions,have you gone too far?

What makes up your past,do you even know?
Where’d ya’ll come from,where do you call home?
Putting distance on between ‘em,distance time and place 
Might be making good time,if you knew what road to take
		
Mama got to get away, made a brand new start
And it don’t take too long to bury what you are
Just a couple generations,lose the path behind your line
Can’t really blame her,knowin what she left behind

Genetic line unraveled,it’s just the way things go
We all have excuses,or no reason to go back home
Aint a thing you lose you could go back and find
Didn’t really mean to,but you don’t exactly mind.

Do you know where you come from,or how you settled here?
Do you see your daddy’s folks more than once a year?
When  family strings go untied heritage is mystery 
Tradition  comes to dead-ends and we run out of history.

Reaching for birds in bushes, lost the (family) tree in your hand
Don’t know where you’ve been,don’t know where you’re at
Aint the way you meant it,It’s not the way you planned
Kind of took a detour, got you living in Hinterland.

Past that don’t include me But somehow adds up to me
The world I was projected but which I’m unconnected
Aint the way we meant it, It’s not the way we planned
Kind of took a dead end, got me living in Hinterland.