Hey you, don't you give up
It's not so bad
There's still the chance for us
Hey you, just be yourself
Don't be so shy
There's reasons why it's hard
Keep it together, you'll make it alright
Our celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets would envy what we do
This could be good, hey you
Hey you, open your heart
It's not so strange
You've got to change this time
Hey you, remember this
None of it's real including the way you feel
Keep it together, we'll make it alright
Our celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets would envy what we do
This could be good, hey you
Save your soul, little sister
Save your soul, little brother
Hey you, save yourself
Don't rely on anyone else
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first
Hey you, there on the fence
You've got a choice
One day, it will make sense
Hey you, first love yourself
Or if you can't
Try to love someone else
Keep it together, we'll make it alright
Our celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets will envy what we do
This could be good, hey you
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
She wanted to move.
She wanted to try something new.
She wanted to live in San Francisco
In a place with a view.
She wanted the sound. She wanted the life all around.
She wanted the fun and the action of a livelier town,
But he...
He would still disagree,
'cause he loved the stillness of morning
And the wind in the trees.
He needed the stars. He needed to say: "This is ours."
And look at a field and a pasture
And a road with no cars.
He wanted a farm. He wanted a horse in a barn.
He wanted a life in the country, far from the town,
So they...
They chose to stay;
They found a place where they hoped
They might both have their way.
Surprise! But that compromise
Was a life in the suburbs
That they both could despise
With nothing of either, yes and too much of each.
The things that they wanted were both out of reach:
No land for the garden, but too far from the stores.
No new folk to talk to, but loud neighbors next door.
Though traffic was endless, no one stepped outside.
An outpost of loners who've come there to hide.
Now why they stayed, all those years,
The answer can't be found,
But there they were, there they fought,
And there they stood their ground
Of all the stupid things I could have thought this was the worst
I started to believe that I was born at seventeen
And all the stupid things, the letters and the broken verse
Stayed hidden at the bottom of the drawer, they'd always been
And now I plough through piles of bills, receipts and credit cards
And tickets and the daily news and sometimes I just
Wanna go back to my home town
Though I know it'll never be the same
Back to my home town 'cause it's been so long
And I'm wondering if it's still there
We think we're pretty smart, our city slickers get around
And when the going's rough we kill the pain and relocate
We're never married, never faithful not to any town
But we never leave the past behind, we just accumulate
So sometimes when the music stops I seem to hear a distant sound
Of waves and seagulls, football crowds and church bells and I
Wanna go back to my home town
Though I know it'll never be the same
Back to my home town 'cause it's been so long
And I'm wondering if it's still there
Back to my home town
Though I know it'll never be the same
Back to my home town 'cause it's been so long
I have traveled the line,
Held many hands on short holidays,
Made a lot of noise
In the strangest places far away.
Only for a day or two at a time,
I've been moving with the wind
On my side,
That puts me free and easy in my hometown.
I said I'd stay alive
I guess I didn't tell a lie.
I told you I'd come back again
And I'll say the same again next time.
I've been living for a day at a time
Movin' with the wind on my side.
You don't know how good it feels
I know I'll never want to go away.
You don't know how good it feels
To be with you again -
I know I'm comin' home to stay.
I'm sayin', it's nice to be back home
Among my friends.
It means a lot to me
And your love
[Hook: Chamillionaire]
Hmmmmmmm, in that h-tooowwn
That's where the trunks go up
And the drop tops be coming down, coming doooown
See other women look good
But without you it ain't the same, ain't the saaame
Girl you be looking so good
On the hood of my candy thang. candy thang
Candy thannng [x3]
Hmmmmmm, hmmmm
[Chamillionaire:]
Ladies watchin me, (watch me)
Drop my top and she (and she)
Looking good so I'm gon spit my game
Boppers watchin me, (I see)
Screwed and chopped cd, (cd)
That's how it go down in that h-town mayne
[Hook]
[Chamillionaire:]
Tippin down, popped up, yuhhh
Gotta hit that frenchies chicken
Gotta hit that bulldrose
Cause I gotta stay full it takes hard work when you working these new vogues
Ya'll living on pluto
That car ain't even fresh
My dick too big, my car gotta stretch need a slab you can't compress
And the dash look like a desk, so pull ya rulers out
And when I pull out the garage just say the rulers out
Don't act like you the south, cause you ain't nowhere near it
I'm the mixtape god making all your brauds catch the holy spirit
Amen
[Chamillionaire:]
I seed out the face
They tryed to knock our taste
Then they tried to take it
Now it look like they came out mistakes
Police watch me plates
Screwed and chopped the tape
Gotta let my top deflate
And now my 5th is bout to scrape
As I watch her body twinkling
She can tell just what I'm thinking
I'm a get her so wet up till her neck
Cause she probbaly think she's sinking
When the kush get hot it's stinking
Cause these boys be out here banking
Putting racks on racks will have ben franklin looking like he planking, h-town
[Big Krit:]
Yeah, yeah, it's just Ciroc in the cooler,
Not a day off but I'm still Ferris Bueller.
Winners never lose so how dare you confuse us,
They quote what I spit like Confucius.
He say, She say rumors all day,
The rap game is high school and life's a hallway.
Like what click you in, the Beamer or the Benz,
The Bentley or the Lambo,
Like here we go again.
Don't sit at my table VIP I got this,
If you ain't poppin champagne after every game then don't pop shit.
Homecoming queen, with my picture in her locket,
But I know what's up with her hands in my pockets.
(Money)
They love me cause my Swag is so Jockish,
Freshman year, sought a ring like I'm boxin'.
You voted most likely to never-ever top this,
I'm Michael Jordan; Dennis Rodman's in my hometown
[Chamillionaire: slowed down]
I seed out the face
They tried to knock our taste
They tried to take now it
Now it look like they came out mistake
Police watch my plates
Screwed and chopped the tape
Gotta let my top deflate
And now my 5th is bout to scrape
[Chamillionaire:]
See other women look good
But without you it ain't the same (ain't the same)
Girl you be looking so good
Oh you can see it when you close your eyes
A Norman Rockwell painting come to life
With all the colors of a stained-glass window
All the characters and old dogs and kin folk
And it smells like bar-b-que and old garden roses
Yells like cheerleaders and football coaches
And it walks like a mayor and it dances like a prom
And it sleeps like a porch and it cooks like your mama
Hometown, hometown
May be the sweetest word with the sweetest sound
Hometown
And it's growing like tomatoes on the vine
Fading like a Dr. Pepper sign
Still preaching like a Pentecostal
And fishing like a backslider
And pulling little sisters in bright red radio flyers
And it marches in the veteran's day parade
And it proudly lets old glory wave
It's rodeos and county fairs
All farris wheels and canned up pears
It'll let you go just to welcome you back
No it don't get no better than that
Our hometown, yeah your hometown, hey our hometown, your hometown
Finally famous nig
West side east side south side north side
D-town (boiiiii)
Put on put on
The city the city I like it in the city
The city the city iiiii like it in the city
The city the city iiiii like it in the city [x2]
Boii boii
I dooo ittt
D-town you already know
Can you say d-town
Six mile seven mile eight mile
West side nigga
Charmers east side ya know
East side what up though
Ya see down town
Jefferson dexter
Joint row
My city getting paid
You would have thought we had the same zodiac sign
As ben franklin nigga (Boiii boii boii)
I come from a city
When 9/11 dialed up
Everybody rawled up
100 gun pile up
They lay it on the line
Make sure you don't get file up
Hammer in and out of court
Nigga don't get trailed up
I'm chasin cheese
Dodgin rat traps
Chasin pussy
You might end up with a kat stacks
I'm outta like a hatchback
For them whole and half stacks
Trying to make at least half back
Nigga af-tax
D-town I honor ya
They hearts drop when they see me on tall monitors
Blasting my city that's yo ass in my city
Need a pass in my city
And I'm mr. hall monitor in my
Get back home from your work, it was another heavy day
Your wife and kids are waiting for you, wonder what they
have to say
Sit back in your easy chair, your wife right by your side
There's no better place than home, it makes you feel
alright
Chorus:
You haven't been in many places all over the world
There's only once place you can be found
It's a place full of memories, of love but also fear
Still you feel at best in your hometown
Weekend's there, having two days off, enjoying them with
your family
Meeting comrades down the bar, it's all you ever need
This all happens in a city, the place where you grew up
Here you want to live and die, a love they cannot rob
away from you
Chorus
Get back home from your work, it was another heavy day
Your wife and kids are waiting for you, wonder what they
have to say
Sit back in your easy chair, your wife right by your side
There's no better place than home, it makes you feel
alright
I'd trade all my sunshine, for twin towers to hide behind
and find you there
And I left on that sunday
To come home on a tuesday
Well I never
I never thought I'd have to stay and watch the world explode
And I swear it was beautiful before they sent those airplanes
And I thought I would show them to you just like my dad did
Home town come tumbling down
When she came on that sunday
I took her home the long way
So she could see
And she asked when they made it
And would they ever change it
I said no way
Half of what you see and none of what you hear believe
And I told her I that they remind me of Motown, sixties, skinny ties,
What they thought the future looked like where the Jetsons lived.
Home town come tumbling down
So we sat down and we cried
And we ran to the front line
And some came home
And I stay off the expressway
Nothing to see there anyway
That view sucks now
But there was a time the Brooklyn traffic couldn't get me down
I swear it was beautiful I hope they build it tall again
This city will not sleep tonight.
I hear sirens as I walk down 59th.
I New York City, lost under a gray sky,
I thought I heard my name
through the sound of the pouring rain.
We're the troops from the west and we never rest.
We're the boys, we're the boys on the open road.
For east to west we; ve done our best.
We're the boys, we're the boys on the open road.
I hear my hometown calling.
I rememver all the emptiness I thought I left behind,
As I checked into a brick hotel on 11th adn 59th.
I see my name on the neon lit marquee.
Maybe the emptiness was always meant to be.
We're the troppes from the west and we never rest.
We're the boys, we're the boys on the open road.
From east to west we've done our best.
We're the boys, we're the boys on the open road.
I used to let you win
you know what I'm thinking
we're gonna let it in
you know it all falls on the ground
just hold my hand
for now and forever
but when the season ends
you will be gone for long
the things we did back then
I know we were young but
we used to let it in
seems like it all comes 'round again
we had big plans
thought that they'd last forever
now I don't understand
that you are gone forever
but my soul can't take
that my soul won't wait
I got overwhelmed by my hometown
there is no way out and again I shout
that I'm still so proud of my hometown
oh oh, oh you are gone
and I'm still right here
oh oh, oh oh, oh you are gone
and I'm still right here
but my soul can't take
that my soul won't wait
I got overwhelmed by my hometown
there is no way out and again I shout
that I'm still so proud of my hometown
but my soul can't take
that my soul won't wait
I got overwhelmed by my hometown
there is no way out and again I shout
that I'm still so proud of my hometown
but my soul can't take
that my soul won't wait
I got overwhelmed by my hometown
there is no way out and again I shout
that I'm still so proud of my hometown
In that days we play, in that times we grow
(Stand up, its time to get along)
You know its time to call your own..
(Expectation of procrastination)
Can you hear what people say
(Can you hear what people say)
Kids won't leave it cuz' their saying..
It's my hometown...aaaaa (saying loud to everyone)
Nothings gonna bring me down.. aaaaa (saying proud to everyone)
It's my hometown..aaaa
(To me and everyone, to you and everyone, to me and everyone, me and you and everyone)
Nothings gonna bring me down..
Nothings gonna bring me down..
Left many friends behind, I think their were gone
I thought I loose my mind..
Let see what we can find, when we were all alone
We never don't know how.
Can you hear what people say
(Can you hear what people say)
Kids won't leave it cuz' their saying..
It's my hometown...aaaaa (saying loud to everyone)
Nothings gonna bring me down.. aaaaa (saying proud to everyone)
It's my hometown..aaaa
(To me and everyone, to you and everyone, to me and everyone, me and you and everyone)
Nothings gonna bring me down..
Nothings gonna bring me down..
Step back to see what's going on..
Instead we never cross the line
Have we put blames on each other
So many things we learn in time
Together we will go away
Together we will leave someday..
There's so many things we've lost
But life's still carried on...
It's my hometown...aaaaa (saying loud to everyone)
Nothings gonna bring me down.. aaaaa (saying proud to everyone)
It's my hometown..aaaa
(To me and everyone, to you and everyone, to me and everyone, me and you and everyone)
Nothings gonna bring me down..
Sittin' on a train bridge
Waitin' on sundown
River winds
Settin' low on that old town
And nothin' else to do but think
And toss a stone and watch it sink
Oh I hope heaven's a lot like my hometown
Walkin' down the old track
Balancin' on the rail
A Sunday breeze
Carryin' church bells
Sun like a kaleidoscope
Through the leaves of a scarlet oak
Lord I hope heaven's a lot like my hometown
Hallelujah
Let my spirit lift to the sky
And tell I'm home again
In the sweet by and by
By and by
Well I've heard the preacher talkin' bout streets of gold
But I'll be fine forever
Walkin' these dirt roads
The homeplace ain't much to see
But it's magic enough for me
Lord I hope heaven's a lot like my hometown
Hey Lord I hope heaven's a lot like my hometown
So cold tonight
Outside I
Stare up at another endless sky
Tomorrow I will leave this town for good, for now
Isn't it so damn funny how these things work out
I've said it all
My last goodbye
Remembering all those times when I
Was sure of my self and my place in this life
Out of shelter I find myself alone tonight
I'm staring back at you
As I start to drive away
The distance grows and I realize
That I am gone, to stay this time
I left my home town now
I'm wondering when all is said and all is done
Will you still be the one to drag me down
So cold tonight
Outside I
Stare up at another endless sky
Tomorrow I will leave this town for good, for now
Isn't it so damn funny how these things work out
I've said it all
My last goodbye
Remembering all those times when I
Was sure of my self and my place in this life
Out of shelter I find myself alone tonight
I'm staring back at you
As I start to drive away
The distance grows and I realize
That I am gone, to stay this time
I left my home town now
I'm wondering when all is said and all is done
Will you still be the one to drag me down
l'm coming back
To my hometown.
To meet my homeboy,
AU my friends again.
They don't know, Lord
How it feels to be back
In the place where it ail began.
Différent countries,
Différent people
I choose to see.
There was a time when it ail felt so
New and good to me.
Différent stories that ends the same, babe
Get what l mean?
There ain't nothing in the world
That makes me feel so free, as
My hometown
Oh, Lord, l'm gonna be in
My hometown.
l'm coming back to
He spoke of tortured souls
So outrageous the toll
You could lose all you have
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Survive
You must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon,
"She's gone!"
And fear has overcome
He was walking the mile
He was walking alone
So outrageous the toll
You could lose all you have
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon,
"She's gone!"
And fear has overcome
He was walking the mile
He was walking alone
Four and twenty dead birds
They bleed upon the nest
There was no time for reasons
They had no sign of the threat
Now it's too late, too late for me
This town will eventually take me
Too late, too late for me
This town will win
Through this fog there came along
Dark creatures singing a terrible song.
The rest of the bar laughed at him.
Only I felt my hope grow dim.
They found him dead the very next day.
"No more stories from him", I heard them say.
We blamed bad luck for his fate.
Only I felt terror so great.
She and he will know,
That someday all things will end.
That misty night
That dismal moon
The dead search for their kin
While angels sing
In endless dark
[Intro]
Yeah, it's Calvin Coolidge
You better stand next to your wife
We're living that executive life
Yeah…
They wanna know who I do it for
[Solo 1]
Bitch I do it for my (hometown)
I switch up by my city
That means when I blow up I'm taking all of you with me
My first name ain't Byron but I'm the only one left
Which means Imma do it till I die in my death wish
Is to kill the mic and my years make me scarier
This man for a smile do not grill me
Because I will release the bear on ya
Truth for me, you better get used to me
I got an ice-box where my heart used to be
And you can fill it with Coors
And it'll get cold as the Rockies
So when I sip it it's consistent to replace my old heart beat
Flippin' shit and I still smoke motha fucka
So what? It's like I came up on a wheel chair I'm just tryna roll up
I don't know about make up but bro you better cover
Girl, 'cuz if I get the chance I'm gonna take her to another world
I might endanger her but there is no sustaining her
So when she gets in the back of my jeep... I'm gonna 'Wrangle' her
[Chorus] (x2)
We hustle in this bitch mid-night to mornin'
From dusk til dawn and you're poor and we're yawnin'
So you can keep on and keep hatin'
We're gone and we on and we on and we on and we on.
[Solo 2]
A hundred forty milligrams got my head spinnin'
Feels like I've been writin for two hours and it's been ten minutes
There's not too much to do around here except for raps
We stay true and spit the facts and if we lose we gon' give back
It's only the beginning and in the end we will be winning
Haters want us gone but we ain't leaving like a sit-in
I got so much shit to say it'd make no sense for me to rap slow
Even though I know sometimes I go like way too fast for the tempo
I had a dream I got money, fucked hoes, and rode planes
… I woke up and nothin' changed
So the day that I blow, Imma grab the world and take it home
[Chorus] (x2)
We hustle in this bitch mid-night to mornin'
From dusk til dawn and you're poor and we're yawnin'
So you can keep on and keep hatin'
We're gone and we on and we on and we on and we on.
[Outro]
Yeah… It's Calvin Coolidge
Don't fuck with the Executive Branch
My hometown's being circled by and by
Excuses will only wear me down
The tension's tied tight stealing all the air
Which back will break first
Back will break first
We wont lay down
We wont lay down
Tonight
This one goes out to everybody's ears
Let's tame my doubt
We won't take for granted
The fact that we believe
And we can't be beat
My hometown's dreaming
Hometown
Everyday may be the same
But I'm happy to live my life now
I feel like I'm a man of my time
But I don't have to thank my generation
I used to criticize my hometown
But at the end I found I love it so
And that the world's not so bad
My life is not so boring
My days are not so empty
And I'm so proud to sing that
I'm so happy
That I was born in this
Foggy town
It'll always be the only
One I call home
And I'm so proud to sing that
Hometown, Hometown, Hometown, Hometown
Why you left here
It's your hometown
You'll always come back
To your hometown
Hometown, Hometown, Hometown, Hometown
Things look so weird
In your hometown
Things feel so good
In your hometown
Hometown, Hometown, Hometown, Hometown
Don't put it down
'Cause you'll maybe go back
Say go man go
Don't put it down
'Cause you'll maybe go back
Say go man go
I got some friends
In my hometown
I got some family
In my hometown
Hometown, Hometown, Hometown, Hometown Hometown, Hometown, Hometown, Hometown
Don't put it down
'Cause you'll maybe go back
Say go man go
Don't put it down
'Cause you'll maybe go back
Say go man go
Don't put it down
'Cause you'll maybe go back
Say go man go
Don't put it down
'Cause you'll maybe go back
I saw your mother downtown yesterday
She didn't know me and her hair was gray
She told me all her kids had run away
They called at Christmas time but really what's left to say
And now the neighbors they don't talk no more
And late at night she listens to the wind under the door
And the cracks in the floor
Oh guess who I ran into in the waiting room
You know they use to say that kid was born with a silver spoon
He told me that he left his home much too soon
Cause no one ever told him about the power of a real full moon
And than he stopped and just closed his eyes
And whispered please could someone help him get outside
And don't tell me you don't hear that hometown calling you
Cause you know what baby your still doing all the same things
You use to do
Wo wo darling you never use to wait till tomorrow
And now you can't wait at all
Hey what's the news in the fashion world
Is it long or short
Is it straight or curled
Does it pull all my last years in a different world
Does it tell your mother
How long ago she was a girl
And even churchmen are wearing stripes
And all the hometown girls are getting in much too late tonight
