Hometown Gypsy

[Verse 1]

Driving up the coast to find a version of the truth

Left the backdoor swinging like a dirty little sleuth

The truth is I have never felt half this alive

Now it’s time to dance upon the grave called 45

Jacked up on some Kerouac and surely bullet proof

The girl who taught me what to do was missing her front tooth

Gentle as a storm inside your mental health

I want to find the answer but I just can’t find myself

[Chorus]

I said so long to the way I played

The way I played inside of yesterday

Hey, let’s run around

The great escape from out of my hometown

[Verse 2]

Later I would look for love inside a woman’s dorm

A couch to keep me humble and her breath to keep me warm

Ophelia was the girl that I was feeling for

Come to realize it was me who was the whore

A captain lost himself inside a 40 year old skull

The drink of choice was knowledge and we always wanted more

Drunken sailors seeking their Geronimo

Instead they found the things that they really didn’t want to know

[Chorus]

I said so long to the way I played

The way I played inside of yesterday

Hey, let’s run around

The great escape from out of my hometown

[Post-Chorus]

Country roads would never let me stay

The way I played inside of yesterday

[Verse 3]

A devil’s growl and cat’s meow were blended into one

Termites called suburbanites were eating all the fun

A juggernaut of comedy and blasphemy

I want to stop the madness but I think it has to be

[Chorus]

I said so long to the way I played

The way I played inside of yesterday

Hey, let’s run around

The great escape from out of my hometown

[Post-Chorus]

Country roads would never let me stay

The way I played inside of yesterday

[Outro]

Hey, let’s run around

The great escape from out of my hometown