Hometown (Remastered 2020)

I saw your mother downtown yesterday

She didn't know me and her hair was gray

She told me all her kids had run away

They called at Christmas time but really what's left to say

And now the neighbors they don't talk no more

And late at night she listens to the wind under the door

And the cracks in the floor

Oh guess who I ran into in the waiting room

You know they use to say that kid was born with a silver spoon

He told me that he left his home much too soon

Cause no one ever told him about the power of a real full moon

And than he stopped and just closed his eyes

And whispered please could someone help him get outside

And don't tell me you don't hear that hometown calling you

Cause you know what baby your still doing all the same things

You use to do

Wo wo darling you never use to wait till tomorrow

And now you can't wait at all

Hey what's the news in the fashion world

Is it long or short

Is it straight or curled

Does it pull all my last years in a different world

Does it tell your mother

How long ago she was a girl

And even churchmen are wearing stripes

And all the hometown girls are getting in much too late tonight

I guess they gave up the fight