Songs I Wrote

Hometown

I spent sixteen years, standing still

Bending to another's will

Go where you're told, follow the drill

Lived with a dad, but lived alone

We had a house, but never a home

Lived in every part of town, but never knew a neighbor

A cup of sugar not borrowed has no flavor

That town's residence doesn't know neighborly

But their bitterness is almost savory

My home is as ugly as they treated me

Nobody there ever really needed me

Never needed or wanted

I was the one forgotten

Even though the cracks are showing,

I'm gonna focus on where I'm going

It may have always beaten me down

But I'm better than my hometown

I was the best there at never being there

Around, but seen right through

Bullied by those who didn't see me true

The blue table that once held my food tray

Hosted me, the only lonely little cliche

Opportunity knocked on my door,

When my dad time it was time to move

But sinkholes did what sinkholes do

And I got pulled back in

My home is as ugly as they treated me

Nobody there ever really needed me

Never needed or wanted

I was the one forgotten

Even though the cracks are showing,

I'm gonna focus on where I'm going

It may have always beaten me down

But I'm better than my hometown

Now, where have I gone?

I've left it all behind

I've escaped the town that was my cage

Gaining my freedom, growing in age

When I drive there, make a grand return

Hit the city limits, my stomach churns

I'll never know that feeling again

Because I'm never coming back

I'm going on in my life, like an open road

Never again will I be slowed

My home is as ugly as they treated me

Nobody there ever really needed me

Never needed or wanted

I was the one forgotten

Even though the cracks are showing,

I'm gonna focus on where I'm going

It may have always beaten me down

But I'm better than my hometown