Hometown

Lyrics by：Halsey/Stuart Price

Composed by：Halsey/Stuart Price

Produced by：Gabe Simon/Michael Uzowuru/Alex G/Dylan Wiggins

Davey died in the summertime in a hot-boxed car

With a seatbelt 'round his neck and a needle in his arm

We would smoke out in the parking lot behind convenience shops

I bought a couple of grams of w**d off him but so did all the cops

Back then

The kids from all the county we would walk out in the heat

Along the train tracks with our paper bags and gravel in our feet

In our heads we picked a husband from the hundred men we knew

But I kissed a poster of a popstar

And checked my breasts in case they grew

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds Davey's running for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers she's waving from the field

And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years

You know I never felt like anyone I was a paradox ol' lie

I didn't think that I was special but I was too afraid to die

Like the others from my high school all those sad suburban ghosts

Trapped in a cross next to a highway while the rest of us get old

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds Davey's running for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers she's waving from the field

And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years

The American dream means staying young forever

In a picture in a pamphlet getting yellow from the weather

And years will pass since science class and I might forget your name

But when the crow's feet come to kingdom come you'll always look the same

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds Davey's running for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers and he's waving from the field

He's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years

Evergreen at seventeen

Evergreen at seventeen

Evergreen at seventeen

Evergreen at seventeen