Hometown Girl

I know all the ghosts that walk these streets

People die, babies cry, and never leave

No one wants these gravel roads to end

There's a train every 2:15

That always was and always gonna be

Daughters to mothers to daughters to mothers to daughters and mothers again

It's so hard to leave my hometown world

I tried to be a hometown girl

But in a car in the high school parking lot, I know I'm not

In the crowd on graduation day

You can see the ones that wish they got away

One on the hip, one on the way

The way back here is branded on my heart

I wish so bad I could play the part

It's where I am in my glory days

It's so hard to leave my hometown world

I tried to be a hometown girl

But in a car in the high school parking lot, I know I'm not

It's holding on to me and all my doubts

Now is when I stay or I get out

There's a train every 2:15

It's so hard to leave my hometown world

I tried to be a hometown girl

But in a car in the high school parking lot, I know

I just gotta go, ain't gonna turn around, no, I'm not