Southern Rain

There's a place deep inside of me
 Where I go
 When the world gets too much
 The child inside can chase away
 The madness
 From another day of livin'
 Lately I don't know
 Who I am no more
 Lost, when I look at my life
 Chasin' things I don't need
 I see the man
 I wan to be slippin' away
 But I can hear
 The thunder call me
 Back from where I came
 There's a part of me
 Still there walkin' down
 That country lane
 If I could go back
 Would it ever be the same
 The closest that I've been
 To heaven
 Is standin' in the southern rain
 Barefoot boy
 Walks along the river
 Feels a breeze
 And gentle raindrops on his face
 I can go there in my mind
 When I wanna leave behind
 This foolish race
 If I've ever been to heaven
 It's when I'm in the southern rain