Way Out Here (song)

"Way Out Here" is a ballad, mostly accompanied by acoustic guitar. In it, the narrator tells of his rural upbringing, the way he was raised, and his desire for the United States to return to a simpler time, back when things "were run the way they ought a be". The song further laments small town America, stating with nostalgia images of pickup trucks, unlicensed dogs running free, and hard working blue-collar men who "chew and fry everything". A further narrative relates to service in the United States Armed Forces, of which the narrator tells how people from small town America often wind up joining the military to earn a living and are then deployed overseas.

The music video for "Way Out Here" was filmed in Cairo, Illinois. The video begins with scenes of farms, a diner run by a young woman in her late teens (apparently married with a wedding ring and also religious locket which reads "faith") then shifts to a local bar where the narrator sings the song on his guitar. Interspersed into the video are scenes of men working on a farm as well as scenes of young men deployed in the Army to the Middle East.