Small Town Hypocrite (Remix)

[Verse 1]

Hand-me-down dreams got me high in the rafters

Homecoming queen couldn't be an outsider

So there I'd sit, with a cigarette lit in a leather jacket

I found a boy who was a stranger too

In a one-horse town at a table for two

We had matching scars and matching tattoos, both dying to fit in

[Refrain]

Ain't that some shit?

We're just small town hypocrites

[Verse 2]

And that scholarship was a ship that sailed

When I chose you and daddy gave me hell

I made myself into someone else just to love you, damn, I loved you

Took all my plans and I put 'em in a box

Phantom pains for the wings I lost

Had me circling rings in the catalogs

For seven years and you never got the hint

[Refrain]

Ain't that some shit?

I'm just a small town hypocrite

[Chorus]

Swore we'd be running, running, running this town

But you're just running, running, running around

And I'm staring at a picket fence

Wonderin' where the hell time went

I should've been running, running, running by now

But I just hang around

[Verse 3]

Love shot me out like a rocket

Never to return, and man, I forgot it

How it feels to fall from orbit

And land on shifting sands

I found my heart at the bottom of a bucket

You said you needed space, and damnit, I bought it

'Til you moved in a vinyl-sided double-wide

With a couple of her kids

[Refrain]

Ain't that some shit?

You're just a small town hypocrite

[Chorus]

Oh, swore we'd be running, running, running this town

But you're still running, running, running around

And I'm staring at a picket fence

Wonderin' where the hell time went

I should've been running, running, running by now

But I just hang around

[Outro]

Oh, now I bitch about how things turned and how they should've been

The bridges that I burned and the trains I didn't catch

Like a small town hypocrite

Just a small town hypocrite