"Bible Belt" lyrics

Free my soul, try to let go
Of everything I've ever known
Freeze-frame time to back when I was nine
And love was all that I'd been shown

Thought a church was a temple
I turned out resentful
I just wish I would have known
Every man has his demons
But that ain't no reason
To sell your only soul

Must get hard, keeping up your guard
For everyone passing by
Putting on a face, trying to erase
Everything you left behind

You were just a young man
Trying to understand
A book written in a different time
Yeah, I think you misread
It went to your head
The pain hides the truth sometimes

But I'm getting used to
Being let down
By the ones that I've been looking up to
My whole life now

It's part of life, yeah
Just part of living
Growing up in the Bible Belt
And growing up sinning

Paycheck to paycheck
Leaving to regret
I know you lost a son
But that ain't no reason
To go off the deep end
And do what you've gone and done

You can ask for grace
But that will never change
The way I think of you
It's like you're climbing a mountain
With your eyes blindfolded
It will never change the view

And I'm getting used to
Being let down
By the ones that I've been looking up to
My whole life now

And it's part of life
Yeah, just part of living
Yeah, growing up here in the Bible Belt
And growing up sinning