My Hometown Sucks
Went back to visit for a few days
Where I’m from, smalltown USA
I pulled in as that big ol’ warm sun fell
Felt a feeling coming over me
Not quite sentimentality
My stomach turned from that old familiar smell
My hometown sucks
My hometown sucks
I miss it like I love a kick in the nuts
My hometown sucks
My hometown sucks
It's a charming mix of hicks in trucks
So much for nostalgia
I don’t know about ya
But my hometown sucks
Every corner you can cash a check
The potholed streets will make you wreck
And Walmart's the only store that's left in town
The kids cook meth on Saturday nights
The quickstop just sells Natty Light
And the homecoming queen, she weighs three hundred pounds
My hometown sucks
My hometown sucks
Drive down mainstreet, you might get mugged
My hometown sucks
My hometown sucks
If you say hoedown, the girls all duck
So much for nostalgia
I don’t know about ya
But my hometown sucks
Bridge
Sure the pace of life is slower
But so is the pace of mind
It's no wonder we always used to drink ourselves blind
Cause my hometown sucks
My hometown sucks
The mayor's a lush, the council's corrupt
My hometown sucks
My hometown sucks
It's a charming mix of hicks in trucks
So much for nostalgia
I don’t know about ya
But my hometown sucks
©2009 Corey Parkman
(for the record, my hometown actually holds a nice place in my memory and is a lovely locale with all the bingo hall fights and check cashing establishments you could ever ask for)
Yup that's about right. Except we don't even have a Wal-mart. We suck worse than this I guess.
ReplyDelete"Sure the pace of life is slower
ReplyDeleteBut so is the pace of mind"
Brilliant lyric. You rock!
LOVE it!!
ReplyDeleteHow many check-cashing places did we count the last time we were home? 15? 20? All within 1-2 miles.....