All You Ever Do

All You Ever Do

Why you gotta hate your hometown, honey
Everybody loves a small town
Why you gotta hate your hometown
Them folks brought you up
But all you ever do is bring them down

Everybody knows the city's no good for you
Look at your face, yeah
Look at what it's done for you
How long do you think a pretty thing like you can last
Sleeping in a sewer
Beneath a skyscraper casket

I want to walk down Vandalia Avenue
Holding hands
Just like we used to
You say you hate the weak women and the ignorant men
But what's a little nigger joke between friends. . .

Do you hate their aching backs
Or the blisters on their hands
Do you hate the way they beat you
when you didn't fit in

Do you hate their empty faces
Or do you hate the weather
They probably wouldn't stare if you
Just dressed a little better