Witt Lowry - Hometown lyrics

Yeah

Remember how the music sounded under
Streetlights on late-night drives
And how the moon would
Illuminate the passenger side
It's twenty to five
I just passed Deepwood Drive
I wish I knew then I was
Livin' in my simpler times
Sometimes I'd walk around Nevers
Headphones on in the rain
'Cause songs always sounded better than
The thoughts in my brain
See, last year taught how much
In a year things change
When I'm in town now and
Look around, nothin's the same, damn

I don't know
What they even mean when they're tellin'
Me I need to come home
Feels like yesterday I packed the car
With everything that I own
Know myself less than I know those roads
But my hometown no longer feels like home

I'm back in town, just not for long
The only time that I come back
Is to visit my mom
I traded oak and maple trees
For a couple palms
Remember back when I would rap
Songs at Tyler and Sean's
The downstairs felt like Madison Square
There was probably never more than three
Or four of us there
Nobody cared, but we never cared
I guess I always knew the thief of
Happiness is when you start to compare
Now I'm in town and feel like a tourist
This is where my mom and
Dad had their first mortgage
This is where my dad passed
Not to sound morbid
Lately learnin' that the little
Things are more important
Places I would visit daily
Now are so different
My old house no longer even looks lived-in
I can't get back all the
Holidays I've been missing
You really don't know what you
Miss until you're at distance
Until you, uh, now

I don't know
What they even mean when they're tellin'
Me I need to come home
Feels like yesterday I packed the car
With everything that I own
Know myself less than I know those roads
But my hometown no longer feels like home

Mom's talkin' 'bout movin'
Now outta state
Lookin' for a place that has
A little more space
So I may not be comin' back
And that's somethin' I need to face
All the memories we made here
Are slowly startin' to fade
And my mom got remarried
She says she's changin' her name
And my sister got engaged and she
Plans on doin' the same
I'll be the last one in my
Family with my family name
Now who the fuck is even
Family? Guess the question remains, 'cause

I don't know
What they even mean when they're tellin'
Me I need to come home
Feels like yesterday I packed the car
With everything that I own
Know myself less than I know those roads
But my hometown no longer feels like home
I don't know
What they even mean when they're tellin'
Me I need to come home
Feels like yesterday I packed the car
With everything that I own
Know myself less than I know those roads
But my hometown no longer feels like home

All these photos are moments frozen in time
They teleport me to a place I
Can only see in my mind
Remember summer nights
Chasin' our whiskey down with some wine
And in the winter
How the air would combine with
The smell of pine
Remember sittin' at the park all
Alone with a broken heart
In my car spendin' hours just
Starin' up at the stars
Back when validation came from a friend
And not from a chart
I cherish where I'm from, from afar, damn