Hometown

The only thing that still remains Are memories and family names Of girls you loved; the guys; your friends These are the things that have no ends The houses grew smaller The neighbor kids taller And parents of friends have all passed Downtown’s now deserted The populous herded Out to the suburbs en masse And that dark lovers’ lane Where you parked in the rain And fumbled you way to third base Is a wide thoroughfare And there now houses there So for romance there’s simply no place The edge of town Drive-in Where dreams came alive in There now stands a faded strip mall Yes, the town where you grew up Has just thrown their hands up And decided to hell with it all With the economy tanking Where you once did your banking Is boarded up; soon to come down There’s not that much left If seems like Grand Theft What’s been done to your stately hometown The only thing that still remains Are memories and family names Of girls you loved; the guys; your friends These are the things that have no ends