Meltdown Town

Turn right at the corner

What’s left of this block?

Red light I must be older…

Back then no one stopped

And where’s the shop from where the booze had been stolen?

I Wonder if the old man left or died

Is that small club even open where we’d kill some time?

We tore all the doors down and we were way too cool for life

We left this world behind

Cut it out from my memory

Feel like a ghost in my hometown

Cut of that long ride through the center

Where we’d hang around

Cutting out all the fake nostalgia

I caught that last bus out

Caught my smile in his rearview mirror

Cracked the day we left this meltdown town

Toy house with a garden. It used to feel so large

That stage with after parties. I think it fell apart

The familiar faces gone

New bunch of kids around

People look right through me now

And I don’t make a sound

Cut it out from my memory

Feel like a ghost in my hometown

Cut of that long ride through the center

Where we’d hang around

Cutting out all the fake nostalgia

I caught that last bus out

Caught my smile in his rearview mirror

I just looked up and thought this meltdown town

Is who I have become

A cloud where shadow is its strength

And though I vow not to give in and run

The rains burn me with regret

Days of summer draw me back here

Tommy can’t come out to play, he overdosed while in the navy

Years of wonder make things so clear

Nenna went to buy some cigs, came back in2 years with 5 kids

Maria said no kids no family, her prime time show has kids on TV

The pale white kids they wait so calmly sitting by those black stars again