I didn't grow up in the city, not even in suburbia

But if you been here once you know it's not a town

Cause the streetlights are too bright

They're keeping me awake at night

Still I call this place right here my home

Cause you don't get to choose

Where you're spending all your childhood

Where time will always stand still for a while

Where your world back as a kid ends at the corner of the street

Oh how I wish I could go back in time

I never missed any distance so close to everyone that I loved

But the world got so much bigger as I grew up

And it pulled me away from comfort

Put me into something that I don't know

I don't know if I'll ever figure it out

Cause you don't get to choose

Where you're getting your first bruise

From that one broken curb that never got repaired

Where days didn't seem to end

And all your wounds would always mend

Oh how I wish I could go back in time

You don't get to choose

Where you're spending all your childhood

Where your friends have only been one call away

Now the days don't seem to last

And one year's gone in a breath

Oh how I wish I could go back in time