My Hometown-Rock Riot

[ti:My Hometown] [ar:Rock Riot] [al:A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Hometown (Wo De Jia Xiang) - Rock Riot [00:16.79]I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand [00:24.83]Into the busstop [00:25.44]To pick up a paper for my old man [00:31.00] [00:33.01]I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick [00:36.40] [00:37.05]And steer as we drove through town [00:39.42] [00:41.12]He'd tousle my hair and say [00:43.63]Son take a good look around this is your hometown [00:50.40] [00:53.28]Your hometown [00:55.72] [00:57.52]This is your hometown [00:58.69] [01:01.47]This is your hometown [01:07.08] [01:09.71]In '65 tension was running high at my high-school [01:15.25] [01:17.79]There was a lot of fights between the black and white [01:21.30] [01:21.85]There was nothing you could do [01:23.63] [01:25.82]Two cars at a light on a Saturday night [01:28.82] [01:29.93]In the back seat there was a gun [01:32.42] [01:33.98]Words were passed in a shotgun blast [01:37.31] [01:38.11]Troubled times had come to my hometown [01:42.93] [01:46.26]My hometown [01:47.70] [01:50.55]My hometown [01:51.24] [01:54.29]To my hometown [01:56.46] [02:02.54]Now Main Street's white washed windows [02:05.04] [02:06.60]And vacant stores [02:07.68] [02:10.56]Seems like there ain't nobody [02:12.57] [02:14.27]Wants to come down here no more [02:16.04] [02:18.76]They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks [02:23.79] [02:26.74]Foreman says these jobs are going boys and [02:31.70]They ain't coming back to your hometown [02:35.97] [02:39.04]To your hometown [02:40.55] [02:43.35]Your hometown [02:44.27] [02:47.33]Your hometown [02:49.29] [02:55.43]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out [03:01.59] [03:03.60]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:10.14] [03:11.67]I'm 35 we got a boy of our own now [03:18.25] [03:19.39]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said [03:23.95]Son take a good look around this is your hometown