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hate my hometown

i’ve always hated my hometown
thought my life was just cursed
going ‘round in a circle
i tried to run from this hurt
now i’m in a parking lot
crying cause’ i miss my mom

i thought i hated my parents
swore i’d never be them
but now that i’m older i crave their hugs once again
and i know our love was flawed
but it was pure and just enough


I miss you
like the sun misses the moon
I can’t change you
so how do i love you?

forced myself to be perfect
made a world of my own
wishing for a new family
an all-american home
now I cry when someone new
hugs me like you used to do

i wrote this song to say i’m sorry
for the times we used to fight
tried to rewrite my own story
of the worst years of my life
now i can’t cry cause’

I miss you
like the sun misses the moon
I can’t change you
so how do i love you?
when we’re miles apart
broken from the start
i can’t fix you
so how do I love—

you don’t have to say I love you
cause’ i’ve learned to understand you
without words
without blame

and i know things will feel different
when you’re gone and i’m here listening
to the words
we’d never say

even after all i’ve broken and become
you always stayed