My Hometown-Neil Young

[ti:My Hometown] [ar:Neil Young] [al:A Letter Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Hometown - Neil Young [00:04.25]I was eight years old [00:06.45]And running with a dime in my hand [00:12.67]Into the busstop [00:14.39]To pick up a paper for my old man [00:20.37]I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick [00:24.25]And steer as we drove through town [00:28.29]He'd tousle my hair [00:30.48]And say son take a good look around [00:35.76]This is your hometown [00:40.27]Your hometown [00:43.72]This is your hometown [00:47.75]This is your hometown [00:56.22]In '65 tension was running high [00:59.90]At my high school [01:03.74]There was a lot of fights [01:05.75]Between the black and white [01:07.74]There was nothing you could do [01:11.88]Two cars at a light on a Saturday night [01:15.69]In the back seat there was a gun [01:20.07]Words were passed in a shotgun blast [01:23.81]Troubled times had come to my hometown [01:31.92]My hometown [01:35.72]My hometown [01:39.61]My hometown [02:03.02]Now Main Street's white washed windows [02:06.77]And vacant stores [02:10.67]Seems like there ain't nobody [02:14.08]Wants to come down here no more [02:18.51]They're closing down the textile mill [02:22.32]Across the railroad tracks [02:26.42]Foreman says these jobs are going boys [02:30.27]And they ain't coming back to your hometown [02:38.43]Your hometown [02:42.79]Your hometown [02:46.52]Your hometown [02:54.73]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed [02:58.57]Talking about getting out [03:02.66]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:10.55]I'm 35 we got a boy of our own now [03:18.65]Last night I sat him up [03:21.18]Behind the wheel and said son [03:23.50]Take a good look around [03:26.78]This is your hometown