My Hometown-Age Of Rock

[ti:My Hometown] [ar:Age Of Rock] [al:Ultimate Rock Collection: Soft Rock] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Hometown (Wo De Jia Xiang) - Age Of Rock [00:17.27]I was eight years old [00:19.21]And running with a dime in my hand [00:23.32] [00:24.94]Into the bus stop [00:26.24]To pick up a paper for my old man [00:31.22] [00:33.18]I′d sit on his lap [00:35.12]In that big old Buick and steer [00:38.31]As we drove through town [00:39.67] [00:41.15]He′d tousle my hair [00:42.46] [00:43.08]And say son take a good look [00:46.65] [00:47.17]Around this is your hometown [00:50.81] [00:53.35]This is your hometown [00:56.03] [00:57.48]This is your hometown [00:58.92] [01:01.53]This is your hometown [01:03.56] [01:09.84]In `65 tension was running high [01:12.86] [01:13.68]At my high school [01:16.00] [01:17.76]There was a lot of fights [01:19.33]Between the black and white [01:21.17] [01:21.76]There was nothing you could do [01:24.07] [01:25.83]Two cars at a light on a Saturday night [01:29.08] [01:29.77]In the back seat there was a gun [01:32.48] [01:33.80]Words were passed in a shotgun blast [01:37.30] [01:38.11]Troubled times had come to my hometown [01:40.89] [01:42.22]My hometown [01:43.55] [01:46.42]My hometown [01:49.82] [01:50.65]My hometown [01:51.81] [01:54.33]To my hometown [01:56.57] [02:02.67]Now Main Street′s whitewashed windows [02:04.41] [02:06.66]And vacant stores [02:07.72] [02:10.68]Seems like there ain′t [02:12.81]Nobody wants to come down here no more [02:16.02] [02:18.79]They′re closing down the textile mill [02:21.88] [02:22.54]Across the railroad tracks [02:24.09] [02:26.71]Foreman says these jobs are going boys [02:30.16] [02:30.95]And they ain′t coming back to your hometown [02:36.12] [02:39.23]Your hometown [02:41.37] [02:43.53]Your hometown [02:44.38] [02:47.47]Your hometown [02:50.33] [02:55.53]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed [02:58.45] [02:59.55]Talking about getting out [03:02.15] [03:03.62]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:10.48] [03:11.82]I′m thirty-five we got a boy of our own now [03:17.91] [03:19.53]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel [03:23.58]And said son take a good look around [03:26.36] [03:30.06]This is your hometown