Hometown Blues

Local politics, the general store In the hands of just one family Highschool Graduates with one way tickets for the greyhound to NYC Bars are closed, streets are dead, by 10:30 everybody's gone to bed Front doors unlocked, the walls have ears And the nextdoor neighbour is the towns gazette Other people's business Rather than their own I don't understand but I'm heading straight for this town I might just be going back Back to my old hometown This is gonna be a throwback But it will solely be my own The nearest mall is an hours drive A great excuse to shop online A perfect reason, for being tardy is the tractor you got stuck behind Log-style pancake, breakfast joints, they got the best food in town Country songs in a lifted truck Watching the sun going down Other people's business Rather than their own I don't understand but I'm heading straight for this town I might just be going back Back to my old hometown This is gonna be a throwback But it will solely be my own I might just be going back Back to my old hometown This is gonna be a throwback But it will solely be my own I might just be going back Back to my old hometown This is gonna be a throwback But it will solely be my own