My Hometown-Audio Idols

[ti:My Hometown] [ar:Audio Idols] [al:Welcome Home - A Soldiers Return] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Hometown (Wo De Jia Xiang) - Audio Idols (音频偶像) [00:16.92]I was eight years old and running with [00:19.69] [00:21.05]A dime in my hand [00:22.91] [00:25.07]Into the bus stop to pick up a paper [00:29.03]For my old man [00:30.33] [00:33.18]I′d sit on his lap in that big old Buick [00:36.56] [00:37.12]And steer as we drove through town [00:39.36] [00:41.10]He′d tousle my hair and say son take [00:44.28] [00:45.11]A good look around this is your hometown [00:50.46] [00:53.42]This is your hometown [00:54.56] [00:57.58]This is your hometown [00:58.77] [01:01.40]This is your hometown [01:02.72] [01:09.92]In 65 tension was running high at my high school [01:15.78] [01:17.91]There was a lot of fights [01:20.04]Between the black and white [01:21.30] [01:22.63]There was nothing you could do [01:24.18] [01:25.89]Two cars at a light on a Saturday night [01:28.76] [01:29.75]In the back seat there was a gun [01:32.60] [01:34.35]Words were passed in a shotgun blast [01:37.06] [01:38.11]Troubled times had come to my hometown [01:43.08] [01:46.73]My hometown [01:47.42] [01:50.57]My hometown [01:51.27] [01:54.94]My hometown [01:55.62] [02:02.65]Now Main Street′s whitewashed windows [02:04.86] [02:06.75]And vacant stores [02:07.56] [02:10.67]Seems like there ain′t nobody [02:12.97] [02:14.22]Wants to come down here no more [02:16.12] [02:18.82]They′re closing down [02:20.02] [02:21.04]The textile mill across the railroad tracks [02:23.50] [02:26.59]Foreman says these jobs are going boys [02:30.09] [02:31.25]And they ain′t coming back to your hometown [02:35.92] [02:39.44]Your hometown [02:39.97] [02:43.44]Your hometown [02:44.02] [02:47.30]Your hometown [02:47.98] [02:55.62]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed [02:58.42] [02:59.87]Talking about getting out [03:02.69] [03:04.07]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:09.22] [03:12.27]I′m thirty-five we got a boy of our own now [03:17.76] [03:19.49]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel [03:22.38] [03:23.67]And said son take a good look around [03:26.25] [03:30.01]This is your hometown