New Jersey Songtext

i grew up in new jersey off exit 91 in new jersey it ain't the town, it's the exit you come from one day i started driving south on 95 no idea where i was headed but i knew i had arrived when after 14 hours i finally reached the fine white sands of jacksonville beach so write write me a letter mama tell me how you miss me how my babies are crying and pa's still pissed at me lord knows there are worse places to be but i ain't coming back to new jersey i remember asbury park not as it is but as it was when everyone knew someone who went to high school with the boss and i learned to play the guitar lick to born to run the same year that they made it the new jersey state song so write me a letter... i must have worried you half to death when i called you from florida and told you i had left for good, and you said "how could any son of mine leave his family behind" i grew up in new jersey, now i live in Jacksonville there's a southern twang to my jersey accent, but still i ain't so far from you, as you might expect i'm on the same damn interstate, just off a different exit so write me a letter...