Song Description

The challenge of returning to your hometown to live

Lyrics

Hometown

Hey look it?s my hometown, What a big letdown, Baby I should know
No need to stick around, They?ll just drag ya down, come on let?s go
You say you?ll run away and you sound sincere
But there comes a day you find yourself back here

Hey look it?s my hometown. Take a look around, see nothing?s changed
Still 17, still bored and mean, still stuck in place
So you run away, now who?s to blame?
17 years later, the question?s the same

CHORUS:
How can you be around here and still be alright?
Still cruisin? down the Avenue, just not as late at night
How can you be around here and still be alright?
It?s not a place for dreamers, the future?s looking bright
Just not around here.

Hey look it?s my hometown, excuse me while I drown in old girlfriends
Those tiny hooks undone, a little backseat fun that badly ends
Now everywhere you go you tell ?em you?re a new man
But they know what they know, it?s the past they understand

CHORUS to SOLO
? Just not around here

Hey look it?s my hometown, think I settled down here by mistake
But there?s a nagging fear I find myself back here at the hands of fate
If no one stays, then who?s to blame?
For the town that?s growing older but?s never changed.

Chorus:
So I?ll just be around here and I?ll be alright
Still cruisin? down the Avenue, just not as late at night
Yeah I?ll just be around here, to keep up the fight
It?s not a place for dreamers, but someday it just might
Be alright around here.