You look out your window
Out at your neighborhood
You don’t know if it mind
You don’t know if it could
It’d be such a shame if this whole place burnt to a crisp

Turn back into a child when you
Smell the fresh-cut lawn
Feels like you’re all the way back
Where you first come from
Run ‘round til you’re tired just like it’s what you used to do

But oh, how the people have changed
Oh, how the stayed just the same
And the air that I breathed since I was a kid
Has gotten me high on a small-town wish

There’s plenty of dangers
In the theaters and the books
So burn all the witches
Lock up all the crooks
You wonder where the Hell it could have all gone wrong

Still wake up in the morning
Wincing at the clock
Neighbor still walks the same damn dog
‘Round and ‘round the block
I swear to God the water’s fine, it’s just a touch of lead

But oh, you know we’re doing just fine
You know it’s been this way all the time
A place of transgressions erased from the maps
And never again am I ever coming back

Oh, ain’t it a shame
Oh, ain’t that a shame