What can I say? Sometimes a place can be your best friend and sometimes a place can turn on you....But is it the place at all or just you that shifts?
lyrics
Mean Old Town
You can put me in a box, take away my air
Tell me to get busy, then give me nothing to do in there
That's how this town is starting to feel
Like I've got the bicycle but someone else has the wheel
You can turn out the light, leave me in the dark
I used to be able to make my own spark
This town is like soda that's just gone flat
Tell me what kind of person would stick around for that?
I wasn't looking for this ache
But now it's here and something has got to change
I don't suppose you know the way
To a brand new heart and a change of pace?
You can lock me in a cage, force me to sing
but if I'm just a bird, oh this town is my broken wing,
'Cause I've been trying to leave
but something has got my hand
You know this mean old town
just won't let me change my plan
I wasn't looking for this ache
But now it's here and something has got to change
I don't suppose you know the way
To a brand new heart and a change of pace?
You can fill me with love, build me a big, big home
And shower me with money
But I'm still, I'm still going to go
'Cause this town is like acid, & I'm feeling sugar sweet
So I best blow 'outta here
before I get those cold, cold feet
I wasn't looking for this ache
But now it's here and something has got to change
I don't suppose you know the way
To a brand new heart and a change of pace?
credits
from 5 for the Road,
released August 30, 2002
Noëlle Hampton: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
André Moran: Electric Guitar
David Kostiner: Drums
Michael Godwin: Bass
Austin Delone: Wurlitzer
Wade Peterson: Percussion
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