Small Town Hypocrite

Hand-me-down dreams got me high in the rafters

Homecoming queen couldn't be an outsider

So there I'd sit

With a cigarette lit in a leather jacket

I found a boy who was a stranger too

In a one-horse town at a table for two

We had matching scars, matching tattoos

Both dying to fit in

Ain't that some shit?

We're just small town hypocrites

And that scholarship was a ship that sailed

When I chose you and daddy gave me hell

I made myself into someone else

Just to love you, damn, I loved you

Took all my plans and I put 'em in a box

Phantom pains for the wings I lost

Had me circling rings in the catalogs

For seven years and you never got the hint

Ain't that some shit?

I'm just small town hypocrite

Swore we'd be running, running, running this town

But you're just running, running, running around

And I'm staring at a picket fence

Wondering where the hell time went

I should've been running, running, running by now

But I just hang around

Love shot me out like a rocket

Never to return and, man, I forgot it

How it feels to fall from orbit

And land on shifting sands

I found my heart at the bottom of a bucket

You said you needed space and, damn it, I bought it

Till you moved in a vinyl-sided double-wide

With a couple of her kids

Ain't that some shit?

You're just a small town hypocrite

Oh, swore we'd be running, running, running this town

But you're still running, running, running around

And I'm staring at a picket fence

Wondering where the hell time went

I should've been running, running, running by now

But I just hang around

Oh, now I bitch about how things turned

And how they should've been

The bridges that I burned

And the trains I didn't catch

Like a small town hypocrite

Just a small town hypocrite