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)