You know when you're doing a song about a small townYou gotta start it with a cliche, you know what I'm sayin'Time moves a little slower hereThe paint peels cause the summers here are so severeAnd we're nowhere near no where you would know oflooks as here they show up just to show offtake a load off, just to watch the day go byPhilosophising with their friends like they're PlatoThey prophecise on the bench by the main road, rightThey got advice I'm like Ayo, if you say so guysBut what do they knowFox News got 'em lit they're shockers, fundamentalists the new communistsA girl with a shopping list, clutch her handbag closeI'm like damn man then it's all backhands, jokesCause I'm a gentlemen, but then again most of us areFirst name basis in the bank, the post-office, the barThe grocery, parks, hey lady I ain't tryna grab your pensionThe old men on the bench humWell lets go, lets goWe're living in the days when everybody sayin'What a time to be aliveBut I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer spaceCause it seems I'm stuck in timeIt's like we ride through lifeRight in the shadow of the cold warIt gets so quiet at nightLike martial law took y'all, '55Time moves a little slower hereA day feels like a week, a weekend feels like it could go a yearAnd we're nowhere near nothing man it's so trueI don't tell 'em where I'm from, I tell 'em where I'm close toAnd I can go through an Atlas, and show you on a map andYou'd still look me sideways and treat me like I'm backwardsBut that's just fine, it so happensI'm happy living in a city that's trapped in timeWhile you're lined up in traffic, I'm not panicked by transit I'm back in timeFor a TV dinner and an early nightCause we get dressed to travel, got an early flightBeen doin' laps of the Earth while doing laps of the sunTryin' to put where I'm at on a map 'cause where I'm from would never get a mention but all that and then someOnce again the old men on the bench humWell lets go, lets goWe're living in the days when everybody sayin'What a time to be aliveBut I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer spaceCause it seems I'm stuck in timeIt's like we ride through lifeRight in the shadow of the cold warIt gets so quiet at nightLike martial law took a hold y'all, '55Where I go, where I goThis will always be home, no matterWhere I go, where I goThis will always be home, no matterWhere I go, where I goThis will always be home, no matterWhere I go, where I goThis will always be homeWell Montaigne let's goWe're living in the days when everybody sayin'What a time to be aliveBut I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer spaceCause it seems I'm stuck in timeIt's like we ride through lifeRight in the shadow of the cold warIt gets so quiet at nightLike martial law took a hold y'all, '55
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