Lyrics

[Intro] So I'm playin' the drums, right? Okay [Verse 1] 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 parkin' 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 'Long 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 casе they grew [Chorus] Therе ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown Somewhere in the clouds, Davey's runnin' for a touchdown The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years [Post-Chorus] Ooh-ooh, ah Ooh-ooh, ah [Verse 2] You know, I never felt like anyone, I was a paradoxal 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 [Chorus] There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown Somewhere in the clouds, Davey's runnin' for a touchdown The crowd appears and his mother cheers, he's wavin' from the field And he's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years [Post-Chorus] Ooh-ooh, ah Ooh-ooh, ah [Bridge] The American dream means stayin' young forever In a picture in a pamphlet, gettin' yellow from the weather And years will pass since science class and I might forget your name But when the crow's feet come, the kingdom come, well, you'll always look the same [Chorus] There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown Somewhere in the clouds, Davey's runnin' for a touchdown The crowd appears and his mother cheers, and he's wavin' from the field He's evergreen at seventeen for the last eleven years [Post-Chorus] Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen at seventeen) Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen at seventeen) Ooh-ooh-ooh (Evergreen at seventeen) Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen at seventeen)