Hoodie Weather

It smells like it should be snowing

And I've been frequenting a diner on Main Street

Where the waitresses are girls that graduated with me

Have problems with oxy and can't recall what I had to drink

No one knows where they're going

They just know they want out of here badly

They're like cigarettes dropped on a highway

They smash and scatter and burn out somewhere else without knowing

I've got my grandmother's veins in the back of my hands

And just a hint of a South Philly accent

I was born here and I'll probably die here

Let's go home

This town has got lies to tell

I'll wait around and hear you out

But I can't keep from digging up these bones

The kids in the graduating class

Have got their eyes set west

And California on their lips

But I left some blood there that I'm never getting back

Rocky's in the Deep South

I don't think he's coming back now

It's sinister, but it's how life worked out

I've got my grandmother's veins in the back of my hands

And just a hint of a South Philly accent

I was born here and I'll probably die here

Let's go home

This town has got lies to tell

I'll wait around and hear you out

But I can't keep from digging up these bones forever

At least for now, I'll settle down

I'll try to find some solid ground

I lost my footing trying to get home last winter

Growing up means watching my heroes turn human in front of me

The songs we wrote at eighteen seem shortsighted and naïve

So when the weather breaks, I'll pull my hoodie up over my face

I won't run away, run away

As fucked as this place got, it made me me

This town has got lies to tell

I'll wait around and hear you out

But I can't keep from digging up these bones forever

At least for now, I'll settle down

I'll try to find some solid ground

I lost my footing trying to get home last winter

This town's got lies to tell