Butch Walker
Going Back Going Home
Sycamore Meadows
2009
Submitted by:
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Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- xx0232
- x02220
- 244322
- 320033
- xx0212
- 476xxx
- 2x023x
- 022100
Intro: ------- x2
Verse 1:
I m not happy with myself these days
I took the best parts of the script
and I made them all cliches
And this red bandanas
surely gonna fade
Even though it s the only
thing the fire didn t take
Chorus 1:
Everybody says you ll grown a
lot from this experience
Baby B comes in after a while
becomes a president
The best things get disguised
sometimes but all I know is
I finally know the difference
between going back and going home
Post Chorus: ------- x2
Verse 2:
There s a lady on my block that has a kid
As he swims in the above ground
pool she seals up the lid
And he thinks it s kinda
normal that she hides
All the cuts and all the bruises
She says it s warpaint for the eyes
Chorus 2:
She tells her son she did the best
she could as she buries Dad
Maybe he ll grow up to be a man
or like his father did
As they leave the driveway
for the northern snow
They finally know the difference
between going back and going home
Post Chorus: ------- x2
Bridge: Rap part
Cut to a life
Being born in 69
Little class suburb
Everythings fine
Fondue parties
My mom and my dad
Drinks being drunk
And fights being had
I lost my virginity to a girl in my band
She was four years older she made me a man
So addicted to sex
Every chance that I got
With whoever I wanted
Until I got caught
So I took my penicillin and I took my band
To a town made of glitter girls and cocaine friends
Got handed the dream by the age of eighteen
Saw more than most people that I know had ever seen
Played every bar drank till black and blue
Did the morning show bullshit
And went to China too
Where they left us to die without a ticket to flee
In sighting the riot we were only 23
Packed it up started over just as fast as we can
Selling tapes making merch in the back of a van
Living hand-to-mouth for the next five years
(hold)
Took up drinking wine, gave up drinking beer
Signed another big deal with a devil in a dress
A one hit wonder I think, describes it best
Decided to burn out, then to fade away
Went back to the van the very next day
Picked it up made a living without any help
Made amazing friends if I saw so myself
If living like this at thirty-eight is a bore
(hold)
Then come on God please give me thirty-eight more
Chorus 3:
And everybody know s I ve seen a lot
Yea, I m experienced
Makes you feel so old after a while
Just like our last president
Everytime I come back in this town I know
(Hold)
I finally know the difference between
going back and going home
Yea back and going home I do