Hometown Energy (Live from Tootsie's Orchid Lounge)

[Soft Crowd Chatter / Acoustic Guitar Picking] [Colt — speaking] Anybody in here from a little town? [Crowd cheers from around the room] Yeah... figured. Funny thing about where you come from... You spend half your life wantin' to get the hell out. Then you get out... And somehow... Every damn thing reminds you of it. [Acoustic guitar begins] This one's called Hometown Energy. [Verse 1] There's a curve on Main where we used to park Still got your name carved in that dark Same old streetlight flickerin' on But it don't hit the same now that you're gone Passed your house, didn't slow down But I felt that pull when I came around Every mile got a memory in it Every turn got your name all in it [Pedal Steel Enters] [Pre-Chorus] I swear I left... But it won't let me go... Every road... Just takes me back home. [Chorus] Got that hometown energy... Pullin' you back into me Every late-night drive, every old backstreet Still got a hold on everything Every song... every memory Hits a little differently Yeah, I tried to leave... But it won't let me be... That... Hometown energy. [Pedal Steel Fill / Crowd Applauds Softly] [Verse 2] Bonfire smoke in the summer air Hear your laugh like you're still right there That red dirt road, those Friday lights Yeah, they still play back in my mind I moved on... yeah, I tried to run But you don't outrun where you're from It's in the air, it's in my veins It's in every drop of this town's name [Pre-Chorus] No matter how far I go... It's always... Pullin' me close. [Chorus — Fuller Band] Got that hometown energy... Pullin' you back into me Every late-night drive, every old backstreet Still got a hold on everything Every song... every memory Hits a little differently Yeah, I tried to leave... But it won't let me be... That... Hometown energy. [Pedal Steel Solo / Guitar Softens] [Bridge — Almost Everything Drops Out] Maybe it ain't the town at all... Maybe it's just you... In it all. [Pause] Maybe Main Street ain't what pulls me back... Maybe it's your hand... In mine... Way back. Maybe those Friday lights don't mean a thing... Maybe every memory... Just leads to you and me. [Long Pause] [Colt — quietly] Yeah... Maybe it ain't the town. [Single Acoustic Strum] [Final Chorus — Starts Soft] Got that hometown energy... Still pullin' you back into me... Every late-night drive Every old backstreet Every place we said we'd never leave... [Band Slowly Builds] Every song... every memory Still hits a little differently I spent all this time thinkin'... It was this town... Holdin' onto me... [Music Drops Back] But maybe... All along... It was you... [Pedal Steel Swells] And that hometown energy. [Instrumental Outro — Acoustic + Pedal Steel] [Colt — softly over final chords] Some places... You just don't leave behind. [Final Chord Rings Out] [Crowd Applause / Whistles] Thank y'all.