Your Hometown
Your hometown is lovely, and now that I've been here, I love you even more (if that's possible).
In honour of you, I post the lyrics to a great song by The Boss himself.
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I’d sit on his lap in that big old buick and steer as we drove through town
He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
In `65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown, my hometown, my hometown
Now main street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more
They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain’t coming back to
Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown
Last night me and kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I’m thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good
Look around
This is your hometown
posted by maiko@theatrereplacement.org @ 9:51 AM
1 Comments:
I see your Boss and Raise you John Prine:
And you know the sun's setting fast
and just like they say nothing good ever lasts
go on now and kiss it goodbye
but hold onto your lover because you're heart's bound to die
go on now and say goodbye
to our town to our town
can't you see the sun setting down
on our town on our town
goodnight
up the street I saw the red neon lights
that's where i met my baby on one hot summer night
he was the tender and I ordered a beer
its been forty years and i'm still sitting here
but you know the sun's setting fast
and just like they say nothing good ever lasts
go on now now and kiss it goodbye
but hold on to your lover cause your heart's bound to die
go on now and say goodbye
to our town to our town
can't you see the sun setting down
on our town on our town
goodnight
its here i had my babies and i had my first kiss
i walked down main street in a cold morning mist
over there is where i bought my first car
it turned over once but then it never went far
and i can see the sun setting fast
and just like they say
go on now and kiss it goodnight
but hold on to your lover cause you're heart's bound to die
go on now and say goodbye
to our town to our town
can't you see the sun setting down
on our town on our town
goodnight
i buried my mama and I buried my pa
They sleep up the street beside the pretty brick wall
I bring them flowers bout every day
but I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say
if they could see how the sun's setting fast
and just like they say nothing good ever lasts
go on now and kiss it goodbye
but hold on to your lover cause you're heart's bound to die
go on now and say goodbye
to our town to our town
can't you see the sun setting down
on our town on our town
goodnight
now i sit on the porch and watch the lightning bugs fly
but i can't see too good
i got tears in my eyes.
i'm leaving tomorrow but i don't want to go
I love you my town, you'll always live in my soul
But I can see the sun's setting fast
and just like they say nothing good ever lasts
Go on I gotta kiss you goodbye
but I'll hold to my lover cause my heart's bound to die
Go on now and say goodbye
to my town to my town
I can see the sun is gone down
on my town on my town
goodnight
Post a Comment
<< Home