Hate This Hometown

All the stereo types, Friday night lights, I hate to say they're true

All the football games and the drama queens with nothin' better to do

I swore I wouldn't miss that

I said I'd never come back here

Had the U-Haul packed before I walked the stage at graduation

I was ready to fly over the red lights that kept me waitin'

From the second they turned green

I got out and gone for three years

It's amazing what a little time and space

Can do to a place

When I drive down these roads, I see you and me at sixteen

When I never coulda known comin' back would be so sweet

Every chance I get, I wanna go now

Every memory makes me wanna slow down

You make it hard to hate this hometown

That nothin'-goin'-on corner store and that lakeview parkin' lot

Your parents' old red brick house, they moved out, but it's still got

A whole lot of you and me

And, baby, that's all I see now

It's amazin' what fallin' in love'll do

To a place you thought you knew

When I drive down these roads, I see you and me at sixteen

When I never coulda known comin' back would be so sweet

Every chance I get, I wanna go now

Every memory makes me wanna slow down

You make it hard to hate this hometown

You make it hard to hate this hometown

You make it hard to hate this hometown

When I drive down these roads, yeah, I almost wanna stay

Oh, I never coulda known how my feelings could change

Every chance that I get, I wanna go now

Every memory makes me wanna slow down

You make it hard to hate this hometown

You make it hard to hate this hometown

Mm