And it goes And I just feel helpless How long will this take to end? Welcome to my home town and down I'm losing my mind And I don't think you could save me this time When will I get through this?

I been dogged and I been driven ever since I left my mother's home My poor father died and left me, my poor mother done the best that she could I'm a drunken-hearted man, my life seems so misery I'm a poor drunken-hearted man, my life seems so misery And

A-M-E-R-I-C-A Home of the free, the sick and depraved So why the fuck are you looking at me? Ya-a-a-a-ao We take medication to be someone else And we take off our clothes to pay for the bills Where downloading content will buy you a sentence And murder

You take your all right, you take your can't wait An' mix it all up with some down home southern drawl, y'all You got your yee haw It's five o'clock, just got paid I'll be off the next two days No more workin' like dogs No more leash, no more boss I've

Welcome to the astronomical club The rocket shell is now ready to take off It's better not to know Dreams, gigantic stars Comets and meteors Enormous mushrooms Volcanic explosions All of you will be back home safely So don't hesitate, join us with no fear

But I don't really mind that it's starting to get to me Is the answer to the question on your mind And I'm sick of all my judges But I know that I can make it As long as somebody takes me home (Every now and then) Nobody ever had a dream 'round here

I'll still call my hometown home That's all I'm ever gonna be You can take me out of the country But you can't take the country out of me, no 'Cause I'm still the girl from Golden Had to get away so I could grow But it don't matter where I'm goin' I've

Like a fool, I'm holdin' on to you There are those who'd love to love me Take me home and take care of me Treat me just the way you never do But I'm here on your door step Something I can't seem to help Oh, you don't love me, you don't love me You place

Hold somebody No, I don't wanna go home all alone Don't let me dance on my own And I just wanna hold somebody I want someone like you, someone like you, yeah Take some love from me, take some love from me Now I'm in need for no one other, no one other

Take me home today The window opens I hear the toddling waves I think about the soldiers, I think about the interstates I would like to leave it all just for a week or two Maybe I'd see it in clarity, whatever I would see It's all so confusing, I don't