Hometown

Davey died in the summertime in a hot-boxed car With a seatbelt 'round his neck and a needle in his arm We would smoke out in the parking 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 Along 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 running for a touchdown The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's waving from the field And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years 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 running for a touchdown The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's waving from the field And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years The American dream means staying young forever In a picture in a pamphlet, getting yellow from the weather And years will pass since science class, and I might forget your name But when the crow's feet come, to kingdom come, 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 running for a touchdown The crowd appears and his mother cheers, and he's waving from the field He's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years