This Town

Population broke a thousand a few years back

Them neighborhoods took over where I used to hide my stash

Back then it was a trot line across the Cibolo creek

A John boat floatin' drinkin' Nana's sweet tea

Seems like yesterday I packed up and moved on out

I always thought I'd take it as far as

A couple hundred miles away

Set my roots and sow my oats

Somewhere far from this little place

Lord knows

Why I ever thought I had to get out

'Cause everybody leaves

And everybody comes right back

To this town

We used to set up shop with a fire

Way back in the hills

And I thought I'd die the day that I got

Pulled under that bridge

My older brother spent a whole dang summer

Rebuilding some county road fence

When a hundred mile an hour

Cut loose of them tires

Through a mailbox and a field he went

I always thought I'd take it as far as

A couple hundred miles away

Set my roots and sow my oats

Somewhere far from this little place

Lord knows

Why I ever thought had to get out

'Cause everybody leaves

And everybody comes right back

To this town

I thought I fell in love by a pond one summer

Just watching that sun go down

I knew it wasn't meant to be

Yeah but I'd always dreamed

Of her and I settling down

Life took it's turns and

Both of us got burned

I wouldn't change a thing right now

But when she broke heart I swore

I'd do my part

To never never make it back to this town

I always thought I'd take it as far as

A couple hundred miles away

Set my roots and sow my oats

Somewhere far from this little place

Then I grew up

And I settled down

And I found myself still hangin' around

Lord knows

Why I ever thought I had to get out

'Cause everybody leaves

And talks a little smack

They all wind up coming right back

Yeah everybody leaves

And everybody comes right back

To this town

Yeah I'm still hangin' around