In a Small Town

Our whole world was one block wide

Our best friends hadn't changed since we were 5

Beer cans in a truck bed, every weekend we’d do it again

Take it out back to the house if Main Street was dead

Couple kids thinking we were always one step ahead

In a small town

Oh but those backroads are the backbones of where we grew up

And these bonfires are the homefires when we get lost

And that high school was first school where we learned about love

And your dad's garage was the first place where we got drunk

You could certainly say we grew up

In a small town

Started to criticize

People who stayed in their one block lives

Loaded our truck bed, headed west, anywhere fast

found out word gets around wherever you’re at

But your old friends they ain’t there to have your back

And you’re wishing you could have what you had

In a small town

Like how that old pub is the only pub where we’d all meet up

And your teacher’s the same teacher that taught your mum

Those crosses at that red light keep reminding us

To hold on to the ones we love, be thankful that we’ve come

from a small town

I’m headed home now

Yeah I just might settle down

In a small town

Life flashed before our eyes

Fell in love with a small town state of mind

Our two kids in the truck bed, playing Peter Pan are lost in never land.

I’m scared if I look away now and look back again

They’ll turn eighteen and say there’s nothin for them

In a small town

Oh but they’ll call home when they’re out of oil and ask for dad

Their first heartbreak will be their first break in finding themselves

And eventually they’ll come back and settle down

Buy a piece of land and build a house

Ya, the ones that made us proud

they’ll all gather round

Bury us six feet down

In a small town