Davey died in the summertime in a hot-boxed car

With a seatbelt 'round his neck and a needle in his arm

We would smoke out in the parking lot behind convenience shops

I bought a couple of grams of weed off him, but so did all the cops

Back then.

The kids from all the county, we would walk out in the heat

Along the train tracks with our paper bags and gravel in our feet

In our heads, we picked a husband from the hundred men we knew

But I kissed a poster of a pop star and checked my breasts in case they grew.

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds, davey's running for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's waving from the field

And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years.

You know, I never felt like anyone, I was a paradox, ol' lie

I didn't think that I was special, but I was too afraid to die

Like the others from my high school, all those sad suburban ghosts

Trapped in a cross next to a highway while the rest of us get old.

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds, davey's running for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's waving from the field

And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years.

The american dream means staying young forever

In a picture in a pamphlet, getting yellow from the weather

And years will pass since science class, and I might forget your name

But when the crow's feet come, to kingdom come, you'll always look the same.

There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

Somewhere in the clouds, davey's running for a touchdown

The crowd appears and his mother cheers, and he's waving from the field

He's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years.