[00:00.06]I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
[00:29.33]Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
[00:35.96]I'd sit on his lap in that big old buick and steer as we drove through town
[00:46.17]He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
[00:54.92]This is your hometown
[01:02.25]This is your hometown
[01:03.68]This is your hometown
[01:15.09]In '65 tension was running high at my high school
[01:21.15]There was a lot of fights between the black and white
[01:26.84]There was nothing you could do
[01:31.02]Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
[01:39.47]Words were passed in a shotgun blast
[01:43.31]Troubled times had come to my hometown
[01:51.81]My hometown
[01:56.04]My hometown
[01:59.79]My hometown
[02:08.03]Now main street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
[02:16.31]Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
[02:24.47]They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
[02:32.43]Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown
[02:45.09]Your hometown
[02:49.13]Your hometown
[02:53.25]Your hometown
[03:01.28]Last night me and kate we laid in bed
[03:05.49]Talking about getting out
[03:09.87]Packing up our bags maybe heading south
[03:18.09]I'm thirty five we got a boy of our own now
[05:14.45]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
[05:54.72]This is your hometown