This Town

Album: Graffiti The World (2005)
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  • This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    Grew up in the backdrop of a small town
    Nissan truck, dropped down
    Volkswagen Rabbit, with the top down
    Sittin' on BBS's, how that sound?
    Yeah, y'all remember that don't ya?
    Don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't ya?
    That's where I come from, Houston County
    No distance a tour bus can take me
    To make me forget gettin' my ass whipped
    In the parking lot of Mafio's
    Skippin' church the first time I heard Planet Rock come out a boombox
    That may be the day God saved my soul, so
    I take a little bit of everything I ever learned with me anywhere on this globe I go
    No body can take that, think back
    Linda Mae gave me the name
    Now Daddy Boone's in your radio
    And for those that think that I changed, I did
    The world out there took a naïve kid
    Scarred his heart and beat him down
    And this songs beat comin' back around
    From outta town, what up folk?

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    Northside High School makin' beats on the top of my desk
    Whenever the teacher left the room
    Three years of ridin' the bench, wantin' to play
    More than the last thirteen seconds of the game
    Tryna get a name, hangin' with the hoodlums
    My girlfriend ended up doin' everyone of 'em
    None of 'em ever thought I knew, but I do
    And it's cool 'cause I used to do your boo too
    Stealin' cigarettes and malt liquor
    Back of the pep rally in a cardigan sweater
    Vowed that I would quit partyin', never
    But now we got death and meth and nothin' left
    But questions in our minds
    Do you think this town is ever really gonna change in our time?

    It's in the sky, a mile high
    It's on your table, that Black Label
    It's in your locker, that bottle of vodka
    Sardines and pork and beans

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    I sit on the trunk of a '66 Pontiac, where the party at?
    I'm asking my kinfolk as a sun gets low
    "Can I get a get a hit of your cognac?"
    Hell no, y'all know ain't nothin' but a corner left
    Did you hear about Peanut? He nutted up four police cars
    He was raising hell
    Took mace and a billy club to shut 'em up, well
    Been sittin' here by myself, drinking Easy Jesus with a dime to sell
    Laying low 'cause I jus got outta jail myself
    One day I'm gonna leave this place, and
    Y'all might never ever see my face again
    Friends been friends since we were little-bitty
    Now we're grown, and this is our home

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road

    This town is my home, it's deep in my soul
    That's why I'm at home, even when I'm on the road Writer/s: Daniel John Donald Bryer, Jamie Scott, Michael David Needle, Niall James Horan
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Bridget from Warner Robins, GaThis song is about Warner Robins where Danny Boone is from, as Safdvsa states. Mazzios was a pizza place on Russell Parkway that was in front of the movie theater (both Mazzios and the theater are now gone but the buildings house other businesses) and was a local hangout. It even says "that's where I come from, Houston County".
  • Erk from Warner Robins, GaI am from Warner Robins. It is near Macon, south of Atl. Also, Mazzio's has been gone since the 90's unfortunately. :/
  • Bobbilyn from Jacksonville, FlWhere is Warner Robins, Ga? (I live in North FL that's why I'm asking)
  • Safdvsa from Warner Robins, Gaactually the song was written about Warner Robins which is where they were from. it talks albout northside high school in it
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