Small Town Hypocrite

Album: If It Wasn't For You (2020)
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  • Hand-me-down dreams got me high in the rafters
    Homecoming queen couldn't be an outsider
    So there I'd sit, with a cigarette lit, in a leather jacket
    I found a boy who was a stranger too
    In a one-horse town at a table for two
    We had matching scars, matching tattoos
    Both dying to fit in
    Ain't that some shit
    We're just small-town hypocrites

    And that scholarship was a ship that sailed
    When I chose you when daddy gave me hell
    I made myself into someone else just to love you, damn I loved you
    Took all my plans and I put 'em in a box
    Phantom pains for the wings I lost
    Had me circling rings in the catalogs
    For seven years and he never got the hint
    Ain't that some shit
    I'm just a small-town hypocrite

    Swore we'd be running, running, running this town
    But you're just running, running, running around
    And I'm staring at a picket fence
    Wondering where the hell time went
    I should've been running, running, running by now
    But I just hang around, ooh

    Love shot me out like a rocket
    Never to return and man, I forgot it
    How it feels to fall from orbit and land on shifting sands
    I found my heart at the bottom of a bookcase
    Said you needed space and dammit I bought it
    'Til you moved in a vinyl-sided double-wide with a couple of her kids
    Ain't that some shit
    You're just a small-town hypocrite

    Oh-oh-oh, Swore we'd be running, running, running this town
    But you're still running, running, running around
    And I'm staring at a picket fence
    Wondering where the hell time went
    I should've been running, running, running by now
    But I just hang around

    Oh, now I bitch about how things turned and how they should've been
    The bridges that I burned and the trains I didn't catch
    Like a small-town hypocrite
    Just a small-town hypocrite Writer/s: Caylee Anna Hammack, Jared Scott Slocum
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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