Artist/Band:
Bruce Springsteen
Lyrics for Song: My Hometown
Lyrics for Album: Greatest Hits
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
IÂ’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick
and steer as we drove through town
HeÂ’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around,
this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
In Â’65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a saturday night,
in the backseat there was a gun
Words were passed,in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come, to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Now Main StreetÂ’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ainÂ’t nobody wants to come down here no more
TheyÂ’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys
and they ainÂ’t coming back to your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
Talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
IÂ’m thirty-five, we got a boy of out own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel
and said son take a good look around, this is your hometown
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