Jefferson Thomas - Hometown Hotel Lyrics

HOMETOWN HOTEL

I used to live in a forgotten old town
In a little old house that was crumbling down
With my head in the clouds but my feet on the ground
And an old guitar that I found

Tired of the people and places I'd seen
I left that town when I hit seventeen
Then I blamed it for things that would happen to me
But now I've come back to see

I could stay downtown in sweet luxury
In a room with clean sheets and a flat-screen TV
But I found a place that just feels right for me
As long as the cops never see

Your house will always be haunted
No matter where you may run
By so many things that you wanted
And some of the things you've become

Now I sleep in my car by the hometown hotel
And I ain't so bad for a never-do-well
The coast might be clear, but you never can tell
You get to the heart when you go to the well

Now the sun's coming up at the hometown hotel
And shining on secrets it won't ever tell
And some I may keep and some I may sell
But I think now it's time to go home

Your house will always be haunted
No matter how far you may run
By all of the things that you wanted
And all of the things you've become

Your house will still be haunted
No matter how far you may roam
Until that sweet day that you learn to forgive
It might be a mansion or maybe a castle
But it won't ever be "home"

But a hometown hotel