Small town syndrome

Verse 1

Same old faces, same old places

Funny I believed we’d be running new races

Main street gossip like it’s breaking news

Everybody got a headline ’about me and you

Pre-Chorus

Trying to move on when I’m stuck in one spot

Like swimming upstream with the water running dry

They keep score of every rumor they find

It's washing over me like sand and dust

But they don’t know what’s going on in my mind

Chorus

Small town syndrome, boxes and spaces

Everybody labeling, saving their graces

So typical and cynical, nothing’s ever new

If it weren’t for this town, I’d be over you

Same old faces, stuck in their phases

Still talking like they’re going places

Oh it hits so true

If it weren’t for this town, I’d be over you

Over you

Over you

Verse 2

Making life small just to fit in it all

Dim my light down so I don’t stand tall

Smile on cue, play the part they wrote

But I’m choking on every word in my throat

Feeling like a tumble here is my fall

Pre-Chorus

Trying to move on when I’m stuck in one lane

Like running in circles in yesterday’s stain

They say tomorrow is a new day

they never change

I’m out of range now

So I will leave and take a bow

Hook

Keep your small town

We will see who is the clown when I'm no longer wearing your frown

So keep your small town