Halsey – Hometown (Guitar)

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[Intro] N.C. So I'm playin' the drums, right? Okay [Verse 1]
D                 G                            Em
Davie died in the summertime in a hotboxed car

       D                   G                            Em
With a seatbelt 'round his neck and a needle in his arm

     D                G                             Em
We'd smoke out in the parkin' lot behind convenient shops

           D                  G                                Em
A bought a couple of grams of weed off him, but so did all the cops

               D               G                                Em
Back then, the kids from other county, we would walk out in the heat

          D                     G                             Em
'Long the train tracks with our paper bags, and gravel in our feet

       D                    G                               Em
In our heads, we picked the husband from the hundred men we knew

               D           G                                            Em
But I kissed a poster of a pop star and checked my breasts in casе they grew
[Chorus]
              D              G                       Em
Therе ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

D                G                             Em
Somewhere in the clouds, Davie's runnin' for a touchdown

    D                     G                                          Em
The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field

         D            G                             Em
And he's evergreen as seventeen for the last eleven years
[Post-Chorus]
D    G    Em
 Ooh-ooh, ah

D   G    Em
Ooh-ooh, ah
[Verse 2]
      D               G                         Em
No, I never felt like anyone, I was a paradoxul lie

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

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

             D               G                                 Em
Trapped in a cross next to a highway, while the rest of us get old
[Chorus]
              D              G                       A
There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

D                G                             Em
Somewhere in the clouds, Davie's runnin' for a touchdown

    D             G                                                  A
The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field

         D            G                             Em
And he's evergreen as seventeen for the last eleven years
[Post-Chorus]
D   G    Em
Ooh-ooh, ah

D    G    Em
 Ooh-ooh, ah
[Bridge]
     D                   G                     Em
The American dream means stayin' young forever

        D              G                                   Em
And the picture in our pamphlet gettin' yellow from the weather

    D                     G                                     Em
And years will pass since science class and I might forget your name

             D                     G                                               Em
But when the crow's feet come, the kingdom come, well, you'll always look the same
[Chorus]
              D              G                       A
There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown

D                G                             Em
Somewhere in the clouds, Davie's runnin' for a touchdown

    D             G                                                  A
The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field

         D            G                             Em
And he's evergreen as seventeen for the last eleven years
[Post-Chorus]
D    G                     Em
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)

D    G                     Em
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)

D    G                     A
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)

D    G                     Em
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen)
[Outro] D G A D G Em