There's
a place in my hometown
We used to go when we were kids
Hey,
Jimmy's gonna be in the major leagues
He's gonna buy this town,
make these old men
proud someday
He's gonna hit it really big
Hey, me and some friends had a
little rock and roll band
And daddy bought my first guitar
Gonna write a few songs
and move away to
L .A.
Get a record deal and be a big
rock 'n 'roll star
Hey, but
Jimmy threw away his baseball glove
And
Tommy put his guitar down
They all ended up in
the faculty's mess
Train killin' town
Down by the old schoolhouse
On the playground,
the boys and the girls
Well, geography never
meant anything to me
This town was my only world
But I remember the first time
She put her hand in mine
And our hearts were so
tender and young
The innocence was known
And love wasn't afraid
To walk on fire and get burned
Juliet moved away this summer
Romeo is still hanging around
Lost somewhere in a bar
tonight in
Trinkettown
Well, I think about those days sometimes
When I'm lyin' awake at night
And I don't know about
this life that I'm livin'
But I know there's some things
that just don't seem right
Like when you get down on your luck
Your friends,
they don't come around
Nobody ever seems to know your name,
your face
Dream killer town
They tore down that old school house
And the playground where
we used to play
Yeah, they sold out the land
and trees to the big companies
And took all of the memories away
Now,
Timmy holds a sign on
an angry picket line
Tommy says, man, I can't wait
I got a family with three
Hung in my aunt's defeat
And
Bill's this little job barely paid
And a man drives by in a fancy car
To the big iron gate around his house
And he'll get away with murder tonight
in this dream -killing town
Oh, and he'll get away with murder
tonight in this dream -killing town
Dream -killing town