Said goodbye and good luck to my childhood home today
Goodnight can be a real strong word if you know you're goin' away
Drove a while and looked at the upper-class sky
Haven't done that since the last time the jets flew by
Jets flew by
And jets flew
By the way you're always on the phone these days
And I know that you're busy making money
But it feels like we don't communicate
Feels like we don't communicate
Anymore
And you know that I love you, just can't stand the way you are
And you know that they hate you, never got you very far
I just wish you'd give me up
Said goodbye to my youth with a nod and a wink, and I spared a thought for time
Told your brother and your sister that I thought you'd crossed a line
Took one last walk through an old half-acre and I found a fighting tree
Pears and apples waging war for a branch and not a-one of them looked at me
Looked at me
Look at me
Look at me
You must know that I hate you, just can't stand the way you are
And you know that they loved you, and they told you to be a star
And you know that I came crawling back, cause you knew I always would
And you know that now it all comes down, gonna torch this neighborhood
Driving faster through the flames and up through wooded pines
Tumbling down to a mountain town where no-one'll ever find me
I just wish you'd give me up
Give me up
Give me up