///*****/// [Intro - Acoustic] (Strummed acoustic, mandolin doubling, foot stomp on a wooden riser) This one's about where I come from. Maybe it's where you come from too. [Verse 1] There's a water tower painted with the name of my town And a football field where everybody's father let them down There's a diner on the corner that has never changed the sign And a highway heading out that we all swore we'd take some time I had a girl named Katie and a car that barely ran Eight track tape recorder and a half-baked plan We'd sit out by the quarry with the windows rolled down low Listening to the future on a station out of Chicago [Pre-Chorus] And every Saturday we'd swear that this would be the year That we'd finally get gone from here [Chorus] Small town Saturday heart Beating in a body that's a thousand miles away Small town Saturday heart You can leave the place but it never leaves you Every stage I stand on, every crowd I ever start I'm still that kid with the radio and a small town Saturday heart [Verse 2] I went back there last October when my mother took ill Same water tower, same names carved into the hill The diner's got new owners but the coffee's just as bad And a boy at the counter recognised me and went mad He said, is it true, is it everything you dreamed? And I said, son, it's harder and it's better than it seems Then I bought his breakfast and I signed his paper plate And I drove out past the quarry and I cried the whole damn way [Pre-Chorus] And every Saturday I'd swear that this would be the year That I'd finally make it back from here [Chorus] Small town Saturday heart Beating in a body that's a thousand miles away Small town Saturday heart You can leave the place but it never leaves you Every stage I stand on, every crowd I ever start I'm still that kid with the radio and a small town Saturday heart [Guitar Solo] (Warm clean electric with slide, country-tinged, singing and unhurried) [Breakdown - Crowd Singing] Everybody who came from somewhere small Let me hear you Yeah, I thought so That's most of us, isn't it [Bridge] Katie married a good man and she's got three kids now She sent me a letter last year that I still can't read out loud She said, we always knew you'd go, we were never once surprised We just never thought you'd take the whole town with you when you did [Final Chorus] Small town Saturday heart Beating in a body that's a thousand miles away Small town Saturday heart You can leave the place but it never leaves you Every stage I stand on, every crowd I ever start I'm still that kid with the radio and a small town Saturday heart Small town Saturday heart [Verse 3] My mother kept the clippings even when they said we'd failed Every bad review in every paper, pressed and neatly filed She never once came to a show, she said the noise would do her in But she knew every word the way that only mothers do [Outro] (Mandolin and acoustic ringing, crowd applauding warmly) Wherever you're from, it made you. Don't be ashamed of it.
