Homeboy (Live At The Shepherds Bush Empire)-James

[00:00.00] [00:06.62]You were too bad for a little square town, [00:10.00]With your hip-hop hat and your pants on the ground, [00:13.60]Heard you cussed out mama, pushed daddy around [00:16.70]before you tore off in his car… [00:19.93] [00:20.70]Here you are running these dirty old streets [00:23.70]Tattoo on your neck, fake gold on your teeth [00:27.20]Got the ‘hood here snowed, but you can’t fool me [00:31.25]We both know who you are [00:34.16] [00:35.16]Homeboy, you’re gonna wish one day, [00:37.98]That you were sittin’ on a gate of a truck by the lake [00:41.43]With your high school flame on one side, ice cold beer on the other [00:47.44]Ain’t no shame in a blue collar forty, little house, little kid, little small town story [00:55.43]If you don’t ever do anything else for me, just do this for me brother, [01:00.88]Come on home, boy. [01:04.29] [01:08.26]I was haulin’ this hay to Uncle Joe’s farm, [01:11.71]Thought of us barefoot kids in the yard, [01:15.36]Man, it seems we were just catchin' snakes in the barn [01:18.74]Now you’re caught up in this mess [01:21.60]I could use a little help unloading these bales [01:25.99]I could keep you pretty busy with a hammer and nails [01:29.32]Ain’t a glamorous life but it will keep you outta jail, [01:32.71]Not worry us all to death [01:35.48] [01:36.27]Homeboy, you’re gonna wish one day, [01:39.60]That you were sittin’ on a gate of a truck by the lake [01:43.06]With your high school flame on one side, ice cold beer on the other [01:49.79]Ain’t no shame in a blue collar forty, little house, little kid, little small town story [01:57.02]If you don’t ever do anything else for me, just do this for me brother, [02:02.78]come on home, boy, [02:09.98]Come on home, boy… [02:17.15] [02:24.00]You can’t hold back the hands of time, [02:27.61]Mama’s goin’ grey, and so is daddy’s mind [02:31.21]I Wish you’d come on back and make it all right [02:39.39]Before they’re called home, boy… [02:45.62] [03:01.02]Homeboy [03:24.00]Come on home, boy [03:31.50]Homeboy [03:37.10]Come on home, boy. [03:40.48]