Edit Your Hometown

An outcry

To lost dreams and the sense of wonder

To the streets that raised him

say goodbye

To the hope for the home he'd been holding

Say goodbye and be gone and be great

To the friends who left when they still could

For the ones who chose to stay

To waste away unplaced

Alone and pray

To get out

to grow old

to grow strong

And leave this city

So familiar

All its places

All these memories

Turn each day more to gray

More they space out till it's

Once a year we'll catch up

Maybe less

Or else just daydreams

While he's working late

Thinks only of those friends

And when they left

Are we still friends

At all

my friends?

Can I leave?

Rewind and find a younger man

All hopes and goals and dreams alight

And bright with friendship

At the crossroads in the night

"Now make a choice"

The city said

We were barely twenty then

But while I swore it my allegiance

They chose leaving

all my friends

And now it's letters

Maybe phone calls

That come less and less each year

All addressed with wives and children

To the fool who chose to stay here

And it hurts me to know I'm alone now

And it's worse when I know that I chose it

Don't make the same mistake as me

Don't make the same mistake

And now my friends have all left

Or it's been me gone all along?

I guess we all part one day

And drop like leaves into the breeze

And ain't it wild?

Ain't it bitter?

Didn't it carry you from me?

But it's the coping with my fear

That keeps me here

see

once it's gone

Do I regret you?

You can't retrieve it

Can I forget you?

I still believe

I might get left here

I might turn 63

Still sweeping up the gutters in the street

Or weeding concrete

Wait and see

We'll wait and see

Or rather

I will

Only me

Only me

Don't make the same mistake as me

Don't make the same mistake

Don't make the same mistake as me

Say goodbye and be gone and be great

And be done and be free