My Hometown-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:My Hometown] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hit] [by:] [offset:0] [00:17.51]I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand [00:24.63]Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man [00:32.74]I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town [00:39.85]He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown [00:50.65]This is your hometown [00:57.82]This is your hometown [01:01.75]This is your hometown [01:10.86]In '65 tension was running high at my high school [01:16.36]There was a lot of fights between the black and white [01:21.72]There was nothing you could do [01:24.65]Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun [01:34.00]Words were passed in a shotgun blast [01:37.58]Troubled times had come to my hometown [01:47.32]My hometown [01:49.13]My hometown [01:55.20]My hometown [02:03.50]Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores [02:08.30]Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more [02:18.96]They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks [02:27.58]Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown [02:39.53]Your hometown [02:44.34]Your hometown [02:48.14]Your hometown [02:56.57]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed [02:59.93]Talking about getting out [03:02.06]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:12.73]I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now [03:20.09]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around [03:27.89]This is your hometown