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Artist/Band: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Lyrics for Song: Hero In Your Hometown
Lyrics for Album: Place In The World [1996]



We were born during the boom times

Played house down in the bomb shelter

Suffered through the wonder years

And silence at the dinner hour



But once upon a summertime

Out behind the old garage

We were buzzing on midnight

Luckys and Rolling Rock



Thinking we were

Heroes in our own hometown

Nothing less than

Heroes in that old hometown



Some married on a day in June

Some disappeared without a trace

And some of us are still at large

Still searching for a better place



But once upon another time

Didn't matter what they said

And didn't matter if we fell behind

We'd still come out ahead



'Cause we believed

In heroes in that old hometown

Hey, you could be

A hero in your own hometown



Now I'm long away and very far

From gazing at an evening sky

From wishing on a shooting star

From thinking that a heart can't lie



This world is gonna wear you thin

Knot you up and spin you round

This world will take it's aim

Call you every name, trying to bring you down



Everything seems so clear

When you're looking back from such a distance

When the road not taken disappears

Into the path of least resistance



But once upon a time

Oh, so long ago

Underneath this same old sky

Every brand new road



Would know that

We were heroes in our own hometown

(Heroes in our own hometown)

Nothing less than

Heroes in that old hometown

(Heroes in our own hometown)



We still loved

A hero in our own hometown

(Heroes in our own hometown)

Baby, you could be

A hero in your own hometown


Album Lyrics: Place In The World [1996]


Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Place In The World [1996]"


1. A Place In The World
2. Hero In Your Hometown
3. I Can See It Now
4. I Want To Be Your Girlfriend
5. Ideas Are Like Stars
6. Keeping The Faith
7. Let Me Into Your Heart
8. Naked To The Eye
9. Sudden Gift Of Fate
10. That's Real
11. The Better To Dream Of You
12. What If We Went To Italy