Thrice All American

Album: Furnace Room Lullaby (2000)
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  • I want to tell you about my hometown
    It's a dusty old jewel in the South Puget Sound
    Well the factories churn and the timbers all cut down
    And life goes by slow in Tacoma

    People they laugh when they hear you're from my town
    They say it's a sour and used up all place
    I defended its honor, shrugged off the put downs
    You know that you're poor, from Tacoma

    Buildings are empty like ghettos or ghost-towns
    It gives me a chill to think what was inside
    I can't seem to fathom the dark of my history
    I invented my own in Tacoma

    There was nothing to put me in love with the good life
    I'm in league with the the gangs guns, and the crime
    There was no hollow promise that life would reward you
    There was nowhere to hide in Tacoma

    People who built it they loved it like I do
    There was hope in the trainyard of something inspired
    Once was I on it, but it's been painted shut
    I found passion for life in Tacoma

    Well I don't make it home much, I sadly neglect you
    But that's how you like it away from the world
    God bless California, make way for the Wal-Mart
    I hope they don't find you Tacoma Writer/s: Brian Connelly, Joel Trueblood, John Ramberg, Neko Case, Scott Betts
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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