Hometown

So I'm playin' the drums, right?

Okay

Davey died in the summertime in a hotboxed car

With a seatbelt 'round his neck and a needle in his arm

We would smoke out in the parkin' lot behind convenience shops

I bought a couple of grams of weed off him, but so did all the cops

Back then, the kids from all the county, we would walk out in the heat

'Long the train tracks with our paper bags, and gravel in our feet

In our heads, we picked a husband from the hundred men we knew

But I kissed a poster of a pop star and checked my breasts in case they grew

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds, Davey's runnin' for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field

And he's evergreen as 17 for the last 11 years

Ooh-ooh, ah

Ooh-ooh, ah

You know, I never felt like anyone, I was a paradox, ol' lie

I didn't think that I was special, but I was too afraid to die

Like the others from my high school, all those sad suburban ghosts

Trapped in a cross next to a highway, while the rest of us get old

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds, Davey's runnin' for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field

And he's evergreen as 17 for the last 11 years

Ooh-ooh, ah

Ooh-ooh, ah

The American dream means stayin' young forever

In a picture in a pamphlet gettin' yellow from the weather

And years will pass since science class and I might forget your name

But when the crow's feet come, the kingdom come

Well, you'll always look the same

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds, Davey's runnin' for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field

And he's evergreen as 17 for the last 11 years

Ooh-ooh, ah (evergreen as 17)

Ooh-ooh, ah (evergreen as 17)

Ooh-ooh-ooh (evergreen as 17)

Ooh-ooh, ah (evergreen as 17)