My Home Town-The Hit Co.

[ti:My Home Town] [ar:The Hit Co.] [al:Working Class Heroes: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Home Town (Shi Da Jie) - The Hit Co. (热歌公司) [00:17.76]I was eight years old [00:19.76]And running with [00:21.66]A dime in my hand [00:25.04] [00:25.76]Into the bus stop to pick [00:28.19]Up a paper for my old man [00:33.64] [00:34.22]I'd sit on his lap [00:35.65] [00:36.17]In that big old Buick [00:38.15]Steer as we drove through town [00:41.67] [00:42.56]Tousle my hair [00:44.57]And say son take [00:46.48]A good look around [00:50.00] [00:50.56]This is your hometown [00:52.97] [00:54.78]This is your hometown [00:58.25] [00:59.02]This is your hometown [01:01.89] [01:03.06]This is your hometown [01:06.71] [01:11.42]In '65 tension was running high [01:14.82] [01:15.41]At my high school [01:18.68] [01:19.41]There was a lot of fights [01:21.44]Between the black and white [01:23.56]There was nothing you could do [01:26.99] [01:27.71]Two cars at a light [01:29.44]On a Saturday night [01:31.12] [01:31.68]In the back seat there was a gun [01:34.86] [01:35.95]Words were passed [01:37.79]In a shotgun blast [01:39.81]Troubled times had come to my hometown [01:46.20] [01:48.07]My hometown [01:51.44] [01:52.27]My hometown [01:54.79] [01:56.09]To my hometown [02:00.05] [02:04.29]Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores [02:10.93] [02:12.33]Seems like there ain't nobody [02:15.01] [02:15.66]Wants to come down here no more [02:18.62] [02:20.59]They're closing down the textile mill [02:24.60]Across the railroad tracks [02:27.42] [02:28.43]Foreman says these jobs are going boys [02:32.77]And they ain't coming back [02:35.65] [02:36.81]To your hometown [02:39.16] [02:40.95]Your hometown [02:44.97]To your hometown [02:47.62] [02:49.01]To your hometown [02:52.85] [02:57.19]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed [03:01.21]Talking about getting out [03:04.44] [03:05.54]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:12.88] [03:13.44]I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now [03:21.05]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel [03:25.41]And said son take a good look around [03:29.34] [03:31.80]This is your hometown