This town is a lonely town
Not the only town like-a this town
This town is a make-you town
Or a break-you-town and bring-you-down town
This town is a quiet town
Or a riot town like this town
This town is a love-you town
And a shove-you-down and push-you-'round town
This town is an all-right town
For an uptight town like-a this town
This town, it's a use-you town
An abuse-you town until-you're-down town
This town is a losin' town
It's a miserable town
It's a nowhere town
And I am leavin' this town
You better believe that I'm leavin' this town
Man, it could never be uptown
It's bound to be downtown
This town, bye-bye
It's closing time the boys are all together at the bar
Staring in their glasses
Looks like another layoff at the yard
Yesterday I heard union hall come down
They hit it with a wrecking ball
And they try but nothing changes in this town
Cap in hand stood in line
Your family ties are the chains that bind
The endless wheel goes round and round
Chances are you'll never leave this town
Oh oh no
Like a river now the empty streets are flooded out with rain
It's falling on the playground
While the kids get wet playing the same old games
Locked away so many things remind them of war
They tap the pavement with their canes
I'm not asleep
when I'm lyin' down
I'm asleep
when I' walkin' around
This town
This town
Some people think
that it's not OK
To sleep around
and kiss the hours away
This town
That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano
like he was pawing a dirty book
He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his
very best little boy look
It was a song with a topical verse which I'm
afraid he then proceeded to sing
Something about the moody doomed love of
the Fish-Finger King
[Chorus:]
You're nobody in this town
You're nobody in this crowd
You're nobody till everybody in this town
thinks you're poison,
Got your number knows it must be avoided
You're nobody till everybody in this town
thinks you're a bastard
Mr. Getgood moved up to Self-Made Man Row
Although he swears that he's the salt of the earth
He's so proud of the "kick-me-hard" sign that
they hung on his back at birth
He said "I appreciate beauty, if I have one, then
it's my fault"
"Beauty is on my pillow, beauty is there in
my vault"
[Chorus]
The girl with the eternity rock went down on
her bookie to buy some stock
Now all her signs in the shopping arcades say
"The corporation thief is The New Jesse James"
Her clothes and her attention were scant, her
eyes were everywhere,
Her eyes were like abstinthe [sic]
The little green figures that dance on his screen
say everything you want to hear and nothing
they mean
They made love while she was changing her dress
She wiped him off she wiped him out and then
she made him confess
A little amused by the belief in her power
You must remember this it was the fetish of
the hour
We are now the chosen toys of caddy girls and pretty boys,
make up that face to win the race, life's a bitch in this town,
suck my dick in this town.
This town is our town, it is so glamourous,
I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us.
This town is our town, so fuckin glamorous,
I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us.
Change our minds like we said before, we are dreamers,
we are whores, discarded scars like worn out cars,
litter the streets of, this town, litter the streets of this town.
This town is our town, it is so glamourous,
I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us.
This town is our town, so fuckin glamorous,
I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us.
Break it down boys, Human Waste in the house
Here we fuckin go
This town is our town, it is so glamourous,
I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us.
This town is our town, so fuckin glamorous,
I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us.
This Town...
This Town....
Well if you ever want to get depressed just come to this town
Nothing to do from dinner to breakfast in this town
Four street lights and one old grocery I ain't long to stay here no siree
I'm bound to catch the next greyhound leavin' this town
I've seen towns but no town's as bad as this town
It don't take long to feel lowdown in this town
Soon cotton's gone opened up and I'm gonna pick it
Just long enough to make enough to buy myself a ticket
I'm bound to catch the next greyhound leavin' this town
Here I stand on the dusty road leavin' this town
A hoping that dog ain't got a full load leavin' this town
The state built new routes just for travel they got the pavement and we got the gravel
That's the reason everythin's dying around here in this town
Well there's lots of sunshine very little hay in this town
The mail don't run but every other day in this town
Four street lights and one old grocery I ain't long to stay here no siree
I'm bound to catch the next greyhound leavin' this town
Well we don't reap we don't sow in this town
Things are so bad that the weeds won't grow in this town
One two three four five six seven this town can go to one place I'm goin' to heaven
I'm bound to catch the next greyhound leavin' this town
This town I live in ain't fit for man or beast
This town I live in ain't fit for man or beast
There's a man down here, a man down there
They all want to rob you or take you somewhere
This town I live in ain't fit for man or beast
I'm going down to the store, boy
And get myself a dog
I'm going down to the store, boy
And get myself a dog
I'm going to chain, chain, chain him
Up to my fence
Make him bark, bark, bark
Understand my French
I'm going down to the store, boy
And get myself a dog
If I had a hundred dollars
I'd buy myself a gun
If I had a hundred dollars
I'd buy myself a gun
I'd stick it out the door
And wait for an attack
I'll need somebody just to cover my back
If I had a hundred dollars
I'd buy myself a gun
The moral of the story
You better watch where you go
The moral of the story, boy
You better watch out where you go
They'll get you in the morning
They'll get you at night
Some, then want to rob you
But most, they want to fight
This town I live in, I got to go
This town I live in
The cars leave their trails of hot & cold light inside my head
Like burned-in long exposure pictures
The wheels spin slowly backwards
Strobing in the amber light
And the rain comes down and washes my brain
But it don't get clean
This town has turned me into what I have become
This town dresses me up like a stranger
This town performs in the window like the ultimate gift
This town takes us down
I feel like I'm losing you to this town
We were saving our money for half of our lives
We were saving our dreams
And we came to this place to make the chances real
In the big city
But I've been counting the days
I've been watching you change
And I can feel it dying
The noise outside takes you in its arms like
A lamb to a lion
And down there somewhere among the noise
The magazine dolls and big money boys
Move silently on their easy heels
Move silently on their greasy wheels
This town has turned me into what I have become
This town dresses you up like a stranger
This town hangs around in the doorway and tells me I'm late
This town takes us down, takes us down
I feel like I'm losig you to this town
The morning breaks and I watch you awake and
This town takes you down away from me again
This town I live in ain't fit for man or beast
This town I live in ain't fit for man or beast
There's a man down here, a man down there
They all want to rob you or take you somewhere
This town I live in ain't fit for man or beast
I'm going down to the store, boy
And get myself a dog
I'm going down to the store, boy
And get myself a dog
I'm going to chain, chain, chain him
Up to my fence
Make him bark, bark, bark
Understand my French
I'm going down to the store, boy
And get myself a dog
If I had a hundred dollars
I'd buy myself a gun
If I had a hundred dollars
I'd buy myself a gun
I'd stick it out the door
And wait for an attack
I'll need somebody just to cover my back
If I had a hundred dollars
I'd buy myself a gun
The moral of the story
You better watch where you go
The moral of the story, boy
You better watch out where you go
They'll get you in the morning
They'll get you at night
Some, then want to rob you
But most, they want to fight
This town I live in, I got to go
This town I live in
This town I live in, I got to go
I don't want to hide this love anymore
Too many lives have been told
Now's the time to show the world our love
When other love has gone cold
And I don't give a damn
Whatever anyone might say
And it's not gonna one of be
A love that dare not speak its name
I don't want to live a lie anymore
Too many lies have gone down
I've made excuses for myself before
Afraid to make decisions till now
And I don't give a damn
Whatever anyone might say
And it's not gonna be
A love that dare not speak its name
Now is the time for something new
Now is the time for something new
Now is the time for me and you
I don't want to hide this love any more
Too many lies have been told
Now's the time to show the world our love
When other love has gone cold
And I don't give a damn
Anymore anyway
And it's not gonna be
A love that dare not speak its name
Now is the time for something new
Now is the time for something new
Now is the time for me and you
And if life was like this everywhere
No more wars no greed I wouldn't care
I want all the best for people
I guess I found love for people
Life should be like this for everyone
Then we wouldn't ever have to run
I want all the best for people
I guess I found love for people
And if life was like this everywhere
In this town there'll be no sighing
No more wars no greed I wouldn't care
No more lying no more crying
I want all the best for people
I guess I've found love for people
Life should be like this for everyone
In this town there'll be no sighing
Then we wouldn't ever have to run
The cars leave their trails of hot & cold light inside my head
Like burned-in long exposure pictures
The wheels spin slowly backwards
Strobing in the amber light
And the rain comes down and washes my brain
But it don't get clean
This town has turned me into what I have become
This town dresses me up like a stranger
This town performs in the window like the ultimate gift
This town takes us down
I feel like I'm losing you to this town
We were saving our money for half of our lives
We were saving our dreams
And we came to this place to make the chances real in the big city
But I've been counting the days I've been watching you change
And I can feel it dying
The noise outside takes you in it's arms like a lamb to a lion
And down there somewhere among the noise
The magazine dolls and the big money boys
Move silently on their easy heels
They move silently on their greasy wheels
This town has turned me into what I have become
This town dresses you up like a stranger
This town hangs around in the doorway and tells me I'm late
This town takes us down, takes us down
I feel like I'm losing you to this town
She was walkin' with lovin' in her eyes.
Momma didn't know where she was,
She nearly started a riot.
She called the police to check it out.
Took her boyfriend down town.
He thought he was a criminal.
Yeah, He though he was a real hard case.
Oh what a day,
Oh what a waste,
In this town.
Was a friday night football game,
Down at the highschool stadium.
She was a cheerleader,
With her quarterback sneaking out behind the bleachers
to play.
Cause they dont care what people say,
In this town.
Nothin' ever changes in this town.
And the story's always the same one in this town.
And i thank you lord for keepin' us safe,
And i thank you mother for making us pray.
She is a single mother workin' at a resteraunt.
Under protective custody.
And every day a boy reminds her of what they lost,
By movin' away from the city.
She says i know that you miss your friends in L.A.
But atleast your father is so far away,
From this town.
From this town.
Nothin' ever changes in this town.
And the story's always the same one in this town.
And i thank you lord for keepin' us safe,
And i thank you mother for making us pray.
For making us pray.
There's an old man on a front porch swing,
And hes always talkin' to nobody.
But if you ever stop to listen,
You might learn a thing or two.
Yeah, I'm talkin' to you.
You see, once he was a young man.
And he was holdin' a young girls hand.
And they where walking' down by the lake,
And about nineteen-forty-eight,
And they had their first kiss.
Oh, with the moon shining down,
And they had the true love.
Oh, it really could be found.
In this town.
Oh, in this town.
Yeah, in this town.
Yeah, in this town.
Nothin' ever changes in this town.
And the story's always the same one in this town.
And i thank you lord for keepin' us safe,
And i thank you mother for making us,
Oh, For making us pray.
For making us pray.
In this town.
Oh, in this town.
It's Just the way it goes in this town.
Couldn't bear to focus, on the bottle laid before me,
every moment wasted, was essential to our story,
yet every single day,
yoúre gonna make me feel that way,
round This Town.
I know, and heaven's up above us,
the stones below our feet,
our situation,
it's like its indiscreet.
Whós goin to say whose goin down,
every little dream,
is saturated... This Town.
Couldn't you believe me,
for once you could believe me.
But every small emotion,
that you treasured so completely.
Wére a failing combination,
like no other two I know.
Every little moment,
and every little teardrop,
and every single precious,
feeling we saved.
Wére goin down in destination,
but it's obvious yoúre goin down,
again with me.
In the morning, wake me up
And tell me everything
So I can understand your world
You can understand my dream
I could be anywhere
And you could be there with me
I just wanna be a ghost
And see everything
I don't want it to be the way they want it
This town, this light, this crowd
Come on put em up
Let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet
Put your worry down
Any every one of you all around
Come on y'all let's take this town
Its better that we keep this close
Keep you close to me
Walking under every sky
Over every scene
You could be my modern girl
And I could be the one you've found
If we're taking on the world today
I know we gotta leave this town
I don't want it to be the way they want it
This town, this light, this crowd
Come on put em up
Let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet
Put your worry down
Any every one of you all around
Come on y'all let's take this town
On our own, let's get away
Nothing more left here to see
Come on Love, make it perfect
More and more I will believe
Like a child I must believe
Come on y'all make it perfect
This town, this light, this crowd
Come on put em up
Let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet
Put your worry down
Any every one of you all around
Come on y'all let's take this town
we don't care about your politics
and we don't care about your laws
we don't care about your heroes
we know they've got no cause
this town is bringing me, brining me down
we care about our freedom
and we care about our rights
the more they take them away
This Town
(C. Caffey/J. Wiedlin)
We all know the chosen toys
Of catty girls and pretty boys
Make up that face
Jump in the race
Life's a kick in this town
Life's a kick in this town
CHORUS
This town is our town
It is so glamorous
Bet you'd live here if you could
And be one of us
Change the lines that were said before
We're all dreamers - we're all whores
Discarded stars
Like worn out cars
Litter the streets of this town
Litter the streets of this town
In the morning, wake me up
And tell me everything
So I can understand your world
You can understand my dream
I could be anywhere
And you could be there with me
I just wanna be a ghost
And see everything
I don't want it to be the way they want it
This town, this light, this crowd
Come on put em up
Let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet
Put your worry down
Any every one of you all around
Come on y'all let's take this town
Its better that we keep this close
Keep you close to me
Walking under every sky
Over every scene
You could be my modern girl
And I could be the one you've found
If we're taking on the world today
I know we gotta leave this town
I don't want it to be the way they want it
This town, this light, this crowd
Come on put em up
Let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet
Put your worry down
Any every one of you all around
Come on y'all let's take this town
On our own, let's get away
Nothing more left here to see
Come on Love, make it perfect
More and more I will believe
Like a child I must believe
Come on y'all make it perfect
This town, this light, this crowd
Come on put em up
Let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet
Put your worry down
Any every one of you all around
Gonna walk right through this town
and laugh with a crowd of strangers chasing me.
Never stop to look behind my back,
so tell me what they said
because I fear my life's in danger now in this town.
How did you get to my motel -do tell soon.
Gonna walk right through this town again
with a crowd of strangers watching me,
picking every little thing apart.
So, tell me what they said
because I get attitude from this town -in this town.
How did you get to this town?
...Through this town?
Gonna walk right through this town again
knowing that I'm only here tonight.
Never cared to stop and say hello;
so, tell me what they said
because I don't have time to hang around in this town.
Maybe... maybe I should think to stay.
Maybe I won't ever return.
Maybe... maybe I should stop and play.
Gonna walk right through this town again.
But, all I know is I really should be on my way.
We all know the chosen toys, candy girls, and pretty boys
Make up that face to win the race
Life's a bitch in this town
Suck my dick in this town
This town is our town
It is so glamorous
I'll bet you'll live here if you could
And be one of us
This town is our town
So fucking glamorous
I'll bet you'll live here if you could
And be one of us
Change our mind like we said before
We are dreamers, we are whores.
Discarded scars like worn out cars.
Litter the streets of this town
Litter the streets in this town
This town is our town
So fucking glamorous
I'll bet you'll live here if you could
And be one of us
This town is our town
So mother fucking glamorous
I'll bet you'd live here if you could
And be one of us
Break it down boys
Human Waste in the house (x3)
Here we fucking go!
This town is our town
So fucking glamorous
I'll bet you'll live here if you could
And be one of us
This town is our town
So muther fucking glamorous
I'll bet you'll live here if you could
And be one of us
This town (x4)
This town
Is a lonely town
Not the only town
Like this town
This town
Is a make you town
Or a break you town
And bring you down
This town
This town
Is a quiet town
Or a riot town
Like this town
And this town
Is a love you town
Shove you down
And push you ‘round town
Hey hey hey
Everybody oughta know
This town
Is an alright town
Or an uptight town
Like this town
And this town
Is a use you, a use you, a use you town
Abuse you town
And bring you down
This town
This town
Is a losin' town
It's a miserable town
It's a no where town
It's the pits
San Francisco
Hollywood
This town
Bye bye bye bye bye bye b-bye bye bye bye
So long
This town doesn't understand
Two people makin' dreams and plans
They say we?re much too young
In this town
This town?s full of narrow minds
Can?t see beyond the city limit signs
They close the bedroom blinds
In this town
I've done some thinkin' and I realize
There?s more than dairy queens and Friday nights
While we?re still young, we've gotta get away
Together we can make our break
From this town word?ll get around
Two renegades escaped
No, they couldn't keep us down
And this town will be a dime store memory
Baby, I just know it
There?s a better place to be than this town
Oh, this town
Now this town?s got a factory
Not much future here for you and me
It?s as far as they can see
In this town
I've heard the wind blowin' at my door
Voices tellin' me there?s so much more
It?s easy to get bored
In this town
I've just got to see those those city lights
It?s time we spread our wings and learn to fly
They?ll never catch us if we disappear
Oh the interstate is much to near
To this town word?ll get around
Two renegades escaped
No, they couldn't keep us down
And this town will be a dime store memory
Baby, I just know it
There?s a better place to be than this town
Oh, this town
Can?t you just hear them talkin' their righteous words
Burnin' down the wire
What do we care what they think now
Thinkin's not allowed in this town
This town word?ll get around
Two renegades escaped
No, they couldn't keep us down
And this town will be a dime store memory
Baby, I just know it
There?s a better place to be than this town
Oh, this town
This town
This town
I'm cured
When you say there's something left
It's pure
Just to know we will always be friends
I hope you find your mind and let them go
Theres nothing left to do in this town
Theres no where left to fly but on the ground
I'll reach you
It's over me
That I cannot describe it
My friends
You know that I can't hide it
Like planets
Contemplate my worlds
Painting all the colours
Running dry like me
There's nothing left to say in this town
There's nowhere left to hide but inside pride
I'll reach you
I'll reach you
Theres nothing left to do in this town
Theres no where left to fly but on the ground
I'll reach you
Tonight (I'll reach you)
Tonight (I'll reach you)
Tonight (I'll reach you)
Tonight
I'm cured
When you say there's something left
When you say there's something left
I'm cured
There's nothing left to do in this town
There's no where left to fly but on the ground
I'll reach you
Tonight (I'll reach you)
Tonight (I'll reach you)
Tonight (I'll reach you)
Tonight (no matter were u are)
Tonight
Tonight
I'll reach you
I'll reach you
I wake up thank fuck its raining
This town keeps me complaining
Right now I don't know if I belong here anymore
Sometime's I've had enough
So I'll keep saying it all to them
When things start getting tough
I'll just keep playing the council pricks
Back handed, deal with it, Grey suited
But I am not alone
Car parks and office spaces
I see the same old faces
And the voice at the county hall
Gets me down and out again
Don't account for no one anymore
The un elected business whore
Get a grant to help fill out a form
This town, is a lonely town
Not the only town, like this town
This town, is a make you town
Or a break you town and bring you down town
This town, is a quiet town
Or a riot town, like this town
This town, is a love you town
And a shove you down and push you 'round town
[Instrumental]
This town well it's an all right town
For an uptight town, like this town
This town, it's a use you town
So let's rob a bank and live like kings
And then we'll run away
Forgetting all the things and all the people
We have grown to hate
And we'll move along
Singing songs we loved when we were young
Reminiscing about the times we shared
And then we sung
How we'll live forever
Cause you can't kill my dream
And I'll always remember
Drunken nights at seventeen
When we all fall down
And we all fall down
At least in this town
So leave it all behind
And pretend like we don't need it
We're listening to all their stories
Been there, done and seen it
We'll close our eyes, let out a sigh
As we try to convince ourselves
That home is where the heart is
That's never where you'll find us
Cause I sold my heart so many years ago
I doubt that it's still there
Why should I care
I'll live forever
Cause you can't kill my dreams
And I'll always remember
Drunken nights at seventeen
When we all fall down
Yeah, we all fall down
At least in this town
I'll learn to laugh
I'll lie to sing about how I fell in love
Or at least I thought so
And I pass the time
Knowing just one thing
This will never be enough for me
Never be enough for me
I'll live forever
Cause you can't kill my dreams
And I'll always remember
Drunken nights at seventeen
I'll live forever
Cause you can't kill my dreams
And I'll always remember
Drunken nights at seventeen
When we all fall down
Yeah, we all fall down
[Chorus x2]
This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
Thats why I'm at home, even when im on the road
[Verse 1]
Grew up in the backdrop, of a small town
Nissan truck, dropped down
Volkswagon Rabbit, with the top down
Sittin on BBS's, how that sound
Yeah, yall remeber that dont ya
dont-da-da-dont-da-dont-da-dont-dont ya
Thats where I come from Houston county
No distance a tour bus can take me
To make me forget gettin my ass whipped
In the parking lot of Mazio's
Skippin church the first time I heard Planet Rock come out a boombox
That may be the day God saved my soul
So, I take a little bit of everything I ever learned with me anywhere on this globe I go
Nobody can take that, think back
Linda Mae gave me the name
Now Daddy Boone's in your radio
And for those that think that I changed, I did
The world out there took a naive kid
Scarred his heart and beat him down
And this songs me commin back around
From out the town, what up folks
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 2]
Northside High School Makin beats on the top of my desk
Whenever the techer left the room
Three years of ridin the bench wantin' to play
More than the last 13 seconds of the game, gotta get a name
Hangin with the hood that loves my girlfriend
Ended up doin everyone of em
None of them ever thought I knew, but I do
And it's cool cuz I used to do your boo too
Stealin cigarettes and malt liqour
Back of the Pep Rally in a cardigan sweater
Vowed that I would quit partyin, never
But now we got death and meth and nothin left
But questions in our minds
Do you really think this town is ever really gonna change in our time
It's in the sky, a mile high
It's on your table, that black label
It's in your locker, that bottle of vodka
Sardines, and pork & beans
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 3]
Sit on the trunk of a 66 Pontiac
Where the party at?
I'm askin my kinfolk as the sun gets low
Can I get a hit of your cognac?
Hell no, yall know
Aint nuthin but a corner left
Did you hear about Peanut? He nutted up
Four police cars, he was raisin hell
Took mace and a billy club to shut him up
Well, been sittin here by myself
Drinkin on Easy Jesus
With a dime to sell
Hangin low cuz I just got out of jail myself
One day I'm gonna leave this place
And yall might never ever see my face again
Friends been friends since we were little bitty
I should know by now
I should see some how
How to bring her round
How to breathe
I don’t make a sound
Splinters hit the ground
Silence screams so loud
As she leaves
As the torch light shines
Through the heavy skies
Autumn waves her hand straight at me
See her world fall down
As the trees turn brown
As she drifts away and leaves
As the lights go down
She won’t leave this town with me
There’s more endless days
Heaven slips away
And I still see her face in broken dreams
Words are left too late
In our last embrace
Pushed until she breaks just like me
As the lights go down
She won’t leave this town
She won’t leave this town with me
Things I wish she’d say
Just to hear something
Left alone to a fate that we don’t yet see
Then the moment fades
The sun turns to slate
Nothing stays the same
She will leave
As the lights go down
She won’t leave this town
As the lights go down
She won’t leave this town
As the lights go down
I've tried so many times to leave this place, this town,
my life these streets are a map of my past, tomorrow
they'll tell me about last night
there's nog odd news if there's any news at all, this place is boring,
this place sucks, this place is home, I've walked these streets 18 years,
my whole life, i know their names like mine, and i hate tonight
where should we go from here, where will be next year, this city is changing
but it's all the same, we've been here, done that, seen this, & trashed that
i can't take another day, i hate tonight i say this 7 nights a week
i hate tonight, i hate this f!@#$ town, everywhere i go & everything i see
i try to shrug it away, i try to sleep it away, i try to drink it away
i want to keep it away, there's nothing left to see, it's a part of me
no, it's not a part of me. I've tried so many times to leave this
place this town my life, the same problems always come my way,
it's getting harder to see
guess I'll find my way home, i close my mind & the problems solved
This city falls asleep as we speak
The night steals the light from this town
And no one is out, except for those who don't have what
we call home.
Every hour is cold, every moment is forever
These streets are as empty as unloaded guns
What I've got is what you see
When you touch eyes shiver alone
I thought you knew that myself didn't count
Every possibility, we dig we win we never call back
Dream of hope misery (HOPE AND MISERY)
This city falls asleep as we speak (as we speak)
The night steal the light from this town
And no one is out (no one is out)
Except for those who don't have what we call home
Frustration covers the sky, I can smell it that's the
best part
I'm counting a(?) second but time has left me down
O you didn't even care
What they said about you
And you ran away from there
Made a home
And you filled it with
A candle on a cinder block
And a matress on the floor
This town baby,this town baby
Is gonna be ours
This town baby,this town baby
is gonna be ours,
oOoours
You find a man
And he swears to protect you
From the dark
And you love him
And you try even harder
And it feels good
And you don't give a damn
This town baby this town baby
Is gonna be ours
This town baby this townbaby
Is gonna be ours
oOoours
I got a job at the hotel
And my car runs good
And builders move in now
I got my place
And i got me a plan
And i make a little money
And ill take you home
If you just look at me
This town baby this town baby
Is gonna be ours
This town baby this town baby
Is gonna be ours
There's this town called heaven where
Someone makes everything seem all right
But you have to stay there with her
For the rest of your life
[Chorus:]
I'm drivin', I'm drivin'
To the end of the road, I'm drivin'
I've been driven, driven
To the end of my road
Passing your town ahead
Straight to that junction for hell
Oh, I won't bother to pick you up
You'll get there all by yourself
[REPEAT CHORUS]
There's this place where
The borders of each town touch
I know that place all too well
If you stand just right, stand just right
One foot in heaven, one in hell
That's how I live my life
That's how I live my life
That's not how I wanna die
Thar's not how I wanna die
In my time of dying (4x)
There's this town called heaven
And there's this town called hell
Gonna keep on goin'
Won't stop 'till I've found something else
[REPEAT CHORUS]
I’ve been around
This town, this town
I know it up and down
I’ve got a mother in the ground
And enemies surroundin’ every corner
I remember you
Yes I do, Yes I do
You were a pistol
Pointin’ up
You been paralyzed by luck
‘Till you were out shakin’ a cup
I'm tired of swallowing all of your hatred.
It's only a matter of time before I puke it back into your face.
Only a matter of time before the tables are turning.
I'll be laughing while this town is burning.
This town is our town, so motherfucking glam
We all know the chosen toys
Of candy girls and pretty boys
Make up that face to win the race
Life's a prick in this town
Suck my dick in this town
This town is our town
It is so glamorous
I'd bet you'd live here
If you could and be one of us
This town is our town
So fucking glamorous
I'd bet you'd live here
If you could and be one of us
Change our minds
Like we said before
We're dreamers
We're whores
Discarded stars like worn out cars
Litter the streets of this town
Litter the streets of this town
This town is our town
So fucking glamorous
I'd bet you'd live here
If you could and be one of us
This town is our town
So motherfucking glamorous
I'd bet you'd live here
If you could and be one of us
Break it down boys
Human Waste in the house
Human Waste in the house
Human Waste in the house
Hear me fucking go
This town is our town
So fucking glamorous
I'd bet you'd live here
If you could and be one of us
This town is our town
So motherfucking glamorous
I'd bet you'd live here
If you could and be one of us
This town
This town
Hollow, the devil's eyes
Besiege and clever lies, he'll pull you under
Won't let you up for air
Try to reason, there's no fucking answer
Try to leave he's like a fucking cancer
No conscience, he doesn't get it, doesn't get it!
He's like a cancer, he won't let go
He'll hit the bottom, and then come back for more
No surrender, repeat offender
He's got the courage, he's got the courage
Don't come calling now, when your two stone throws away from your own grave
Your back's to the wall, you're at the bottom of the well
2 bridges down, only one to burn
I'm singin' now, 3 bridges down nothing left to burn
[Chorus]
I've seen it. You said it. This town is burning down
He's living underneath. That black cloud down town
If he comes around, it thunders and it pours
Renelly makes a dirty living from cheating, double cross and stealing
Heartless, no soul, he reeks of filth so I'm told
He's like a cancer, he won't let go
He'll hit the bottom, and then come back for more
No surrender, repeat offender
He's got the courage, he's got the courage
Don't come calling now, when your two stone throws away from your own grave
Your back's to the wall, you're at the bottom of the well
2 bridges down, only one to burn
I'm singin' now, 3 bridges down nothing left to burn
We've made up our minds
This is all we could make of all you believed
Wherever the should be has gone
We can lay ouir collars like a fond farewell
And over their heads it keeps hanging like stone and the longer they stare
You know that the more its gonna hurt
They just keep losing sleep
What's wrong with everyone around this town?
Fools will believe
Fools will believe in us now
Save breath and hope for the best
Just in time to save these idle hands
Save breath
Maybe its been far too long
Must we spell it out on our chests?
This town, old town
The place I spend my younger years
The house that sheltered me from fear
The only time I ever cried
Is when I could not play
This girl, my girl
We met when I was just a lad
A happiness we never had
The only time that I was sad
Was when I could not stay
I run away from her
To seek my fame
Now that I found it
Well, it's not the same
This town, old town
This place has washed upon the shore
And here I am beside your door
But you are gone forevermore
Alone, me and the sea
I run away from her
To seek my fame
Now that I found it
Well, it's not the same
This town, old town
This place has washed upon the shore
And here I am beside your door
But I will stay forevermore
Alone, me and the sea
Alone, me and the sea
Oh, ohhhh, oh, alone, alone, alone, alone, alone
In the morning wake me up
And tell me everything
So I can understand your world
And you can understand my dream
Yeah I could be anywhere
And you could be there with me
But I just want to be a ghost
And see everything
I don't want it to be the way they want it
This town, this night, this crowd
Come on put them up, let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet put your worry down
And everyone of you all around
Come on ya'll let's take this town
Let's take this town
It's better that we keep this close
Keep you close to me
Walking under every sky
Over every sea
You can be my modern girl
And I can be the one you found
If we're taking on the world today
I know we got to leave this town
I don't want it to be the way they want it
This town, this night, this crowd
Come on put them up, let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet put your worry down
And everyone of you all around
Come on ya'll let's take this town
Let's take this town
Come on ya'll let's take this town
Come on ya'll let's take it down
On our own let's get away
Nothing more left here to see
Come on love make it perfect
More and more I will believe
Like a child I must believe
Come on ya'll make it perfect
This town, this night, this crowd
Come on put them up, let me hear it loud
This town, this city, this crowd
Stand up on your feet put your worry down
And everyone of you all around
Come on ya'll let's take it
Everyone of you in this crowd
Come on ya'll let's take this town
This town, this night, this crowd
Come on put them up, let's take this town
This town, this city, this crowd
We're taking on the world today
Come on put them up, and every one of you all around
We can be anyway, take this town
Come on put them up, we're taking on the world today
We all know the chosen toys
Of catty girls and pretty boys
Make up that face
Jump in the race
Life's a kick in this town
Life's a kick in this town
CHORUS
This town is our town
It is so glamorous
Bet you'd live here if you could
And be one of us
Change the lines that were said before
We're all dreamers - we're all whores
Discarded stars
Like worn out cars
Litter the streets of this town
Something I've lost is something you found.
I spend more time scanning the ground.
These empty streets are just memories that all that
comes up always comes down.
It always comes down.
Oh, how this town is getting me down.
Oh, how these streets are frustrating me.
I need to go where I can see faces I know smiling.
And all because I'm out of love with this town.
On the night bus I feel the last rush of adrenaline
wash over me.
Simply a wish that from all this we can all find
something inspired.
Oh, how this town is getting me down.
Oh, how these streets are frustrating me.
I need to go where I can see faces I know smiling.
And all because I'm out of love with this town.
Town escaping and people filing through.
New horizons the world from this view.
Truth of it all and the grass under feet.
This is the best part, it's the start, it's the eve.
But it all, goes so slow.
Oh, how this town is getting me down.
Oh, how these streets are frustrating me.
I need to go where I can see faces I know smiling at
Oh, how this town is getting me down.
Oh, how these streets are frustrating me.
I need to go where I can see faces I know smiling at
And I need to be where I can see, where I can feel and
This town is a lot like me
Sadder and wiser than it used to be
A little sprawled out, a little rundown
I wonder what's gonna become of this town
This town has its highs and lows
And a hole in the middle where nobody goes
People come through but they don't hang around
Nobody wants to get to the heart of this town
This town has its own sweet charms
Open your heart and it'll open its arms
Take you by the hand and show you around
There's still a lot of life left in this town
All that I can see is lovers kissing in the street
Swaying to the beat of a rusty radio
All that I can hear another late night symphony
The sound of traffic moving like an undertow
This town can't get no rest
Everybody thinks that they know best
They're either building it up or they're tearing it down
They can't seem to love it like it is, this town
All I wanna do tonight is kiss you in the street
Swaying to the beat of a rusty radio
All I wanna do is feel your arms around me too
Pullin' on my body like an undertow
This town is a lot like me
A little coat of paint and some TLC
And she'll light right up if you come around
I wake up thank fuck its raining
This town keeps me complaining
Right now I don't know if I belong here anymore
Sometime's I've had enough
So I'll keep saying it all to them
When things start getting tough
I'll just keep playing the council pricks
Back handed, deal with it, Grey suited
But I am not alone
Car parks and office spaces
I see the same old faces
And the voice at the county hall
Gets me down and out again
Don't account for no one anymore
The un elected business whore
Get a grant to help fill out a form
It's been the same old day in this town
And my head won't stop hanging down
No my head won't stop hanging down
It's just the kind of day when your friends don't come around
And my head won't stop hanging down
No my head won't stop hanging down
A street gang tried to take my pride, tried to take my money and phone
No train, no fame, cold rain, and I forgot my umbrella at home
Please ask me my opinion of the war and politicians out wasting my dough
When they tell me that I don't know nothing,
I just tell them that there's nothing to know
'Cause it's been the same old day in this town
And my head won't stop hanging down
No my head won't stop hanging down
It's just the kind of day that your friends don't come around
And my head won't stop hanging down
No my head won't stop hanging down
I grew up in a Crate and Barrel home and if you could
then you certainly can
I'm a good son, good brother, good lover but I sure ain't much of a man
So you think that you know me boy? You think you watched what I became?
Well you better know that what I do and who I am is never the same
[chorus]
And the love of a woman ain't gonna save my sorry day
I need something between just a near drink of beam
and a river to sweep me away
I ain't gonna share my bed so you can nod your head
and tell me it will be okay
I’m tired of pretending, Looking for the right words,
You see happy-endings, I keep looking skyward,
Tired of disappointment, Tired of confusion,
Got no other choice, so I come to the conclusion,
That I’m gonna leave this town, Oh, I’ll never turn around,
If I don’t get out right now,
I’m never leaving,
I’m falling to pieces,
In this town,
Oh I’ve been writing love songs I don’t even believe in,
You see ever-after, I’m staring at the ceiling
Chasing ‘round the same old circles in my head,
I’ve learned to pick my battles and now this is the end,
I’m gonna leave this town, Or I’m gonna burn it down,
If I don’t get out right now,
I’m never leaving,
I’m falling to pieces,
In this town,
My time is running out,
Gotta get moving,
Or I’m gonna lose it,
In this town,
Oh, I gotta go, I’m gonna walk away, baby,
Oh, I gotta go, I’m gonna walk away, walk away
Oh, I gotta go, I’m gonna walk away, baby
Oh, Oh
If I don’t get out right now,
I’m never leaving,
I’m falling to pieces,
In this town,
My time is running out,
Gotta get moving,
Or I’m gonna lose it,
In this town,
Oh, I gotta go, I’m gonna walk away, baby,
Oh, I gotta go, I’m gonna walk away, walk away
Oh, I gotta go, I’m gonna walk away, baby
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