Roots Lyrics

Eighteen years fly by while I'm still stuck inside

My friends are all out by the lake, they're drinking getting high

I'm searching for the words I always think I need to find

To explain to you how I don't want the years to pass me by

That's why I packed up my shit and said"fuck this town"

I know every name in every faceless crowd

The endless bullshit just goes 'round and 'round

Until I'm back where I started on forsaken ground

Decades passed since I escaped these city lines

But still I find myself back in this town from time to time

Crumpled memories for 1995

Line the broken streets of our defeat, that's one way we're alike

That's why I packed up my shit and said"fuck this town"

I know every name in every faceless crowd

The endless bullshit just goes 'round and 'round

Until I'm back where I started on forsaken ground

I used to think that this place was so safe and sound

But now all I want is my own way out

These roots grab my throat 'till they choke me out

I want to belt out the chorus, screaming"fuck this town"

And now I'm here without the wake of breathing through

I thought we could revisit what I did to you

This fucking town is everything I wish was gone

With how I used to be, that's why we wrote this song

La da, la da da da

Ha da da da, la da d-da da da da da

Da la da da, la da, la da

That's why I packed up my shit and said"fuck this town"

I know every name in every faceless crowd

The endless bullshit just goes 'round and 'round

Until I'm back where I started on forsaken ground

I used to think that this place was so safe and sound

But now all I want is my own way out

These roots grab my throat 'till they choke me out

I want to belt out the chorus, screaming"fuck this town"