Hometown Gypsy

Drivin' up the coast

To find a version of the truth

I left the backdoor swingin'

Like a dirty, little sleuth

Truth is, I have never felt half this alive

Now it's time to dance upon a

Gray Colt .45

Jacked up on some Kerouac

And surely bulletproof

The girl who taught me what to do

Was missin' her front tooth

Gentle as a storm inside your mental health

I wanna find the answer

But I just can't find myself

I said so long to the way I played

The way I played inside of yesterday

Hey, let's run around

The great escape from out of my hometown

Later I would look for love

Inside a woman's dorm

A couch to keep me humble

And her breath to keep me warm

I feel you was the girl

That I was feelin' for

Come to realize it was me

Who was the whore

A captain lost himself inside

A forty year old skull

The drink of choice was knowledge

And we always wanted more

Drunken sailors seekin' their Geronimo

Instead they found the things that they

Really didn't wanna know

I said so long to the way I played

The way I played inside of yesterday

Hey, let's run around

The great escape from out of my hometown

Country roads'll never let me stay

The way I played inside of yesterday

The Devil's growl and cat's meow

Were blended into one

Termites called suburbanites

Were eating all the fun

Juggernaut of comedy and blasphemy

I wanna stop the madness

But I think it has to be

Said so long to the way I played

The way I played inside of yesterday

Hey, let's run around

The great escape from out of my hometown

Country roads'll never let me stay

The way I played inside of yesterday

Hey, let's run around

The great escape from out of my hometown